Psyc 360 1st Edition Lecture 16 Outline of Last Lecture I Social Influence Continued II Conformity III Obedience Outline of Current Lecture II Losing Yourself a Deindividuation and the Group Mind Current Lecture How do we act differently in a group and alone Conformity in a group Suicide baiting a group of people instigating someone to jump off a bridge o The bigger the group the more likely the suicide is to occur o Occurs at night more likely due to more anonymous in darkness o Deindividuation All PowerPoints slides are emailed by the TA Rick Being in a big group and losing one s self awareness Not thinking of yourself as an individual or of our standards Deindividuation effects our minds The more anonymous soldiers are in an army the more violent they are in war Can be good or bad Deindividuation and inflicting pain study A learner and teacher Teacher administers shocks to the learner The learner was either really nice or really rude How much is each person shocked in a deindividuated situation and an individual situation High shocks for both rude and nice person in the deindividuated situation These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Nice person has low really low shock percent in individual situation Rude person is shocked more than nice person in individual situation Another study where people giving shocks dressed in costumes People dressed in KKK costume administered high shocks Those in a nurse costume did not administer many shocks at all Zimbardo study similar to Abu Graib Normal people acting in manners they never expected to do
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