Soc+Psych+Films

= = =GOING TO THE MOVIES in Social Psych=

STANLEY MILGRAM: IV - Authority figure DV - Obedience

 * Diffusion of responsibility

SOLOMON ASCH: IV - Group pressure DV - Conformity/copying peers

 * Conformity
 * Normative Social Influence - do it b/c it will help you gain approval
 * Informational Social Influence - do it b/c you don't think you know the answer

Leon Festinger - Cognitive Dissonance

 * don't worry about experiment, but remember this song!

Latane and Darley: IV - # of people DV - amount of help/altrusim

 * Diffusion of responsibility
 * Bystander effect - stand by and let emergencies occur
 * Bystander intervention - person gets involved in emergency and avoids

Muzafer Sherif : IV - contact hypothesis DV - ingroup favoritism & outgroup homogeneity effect

 * Ingroups/outgroups (rattlers vs eagles at "Robber Barron Camp")
 * Outgroup homogeneity effect - think of outgroup members as "all the same"
 * Contact hypothesis theory - just being face-to-face with the outgroup
 * Superordinate goal - have an overarching purpose or objective for all groups to achieve together

Rosenthal and Jacobsen : IV - expectations or beliefs DV - behaviors

 * Self-fulfilling prophecy - in the case of the classroom environment and when Rosenthal told his college students they had "smart" rats or "stupid/slow" rats

Clark and Clark: (ex-post facto); society's thoughts influence expectations
Modern-day replication
 * Self-fulfilling prophecy



Social Facilitation - the presence of others improves performance Social Inhibition - the presence of others hurts performance

(Ringelmann): Social Loafing IV - # of group members DV - laziness


Fundamental attribution error

Self-serving bias

Zimbardo: IV - Role-playing DV - evil behaviors

 * social roles/situation
 * deindividuation - lose self in group
 * group polarization - become more extreme with like-minded people; can have views moderated when exposed to opposing view

Group Polarization
become more extreme with like-minded people; can have views moderated when exposed to opposing view

Social Trap
WIN-WIN WIN (selfish) - LOSE