Deindidivdalisation - Aggression Flashcards

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What does Zimbardo distinguish between?

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Individuated behaviour - conforms to social norms

Deindividuated behaviour - unsocialised and based on more primitive argues

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What is reduced public self-awareness and reduced private self-awareness?

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Public - we are less likely to be identified by others

Private - people become less successful at monitoring their own behaviour and judging wether it is appropriate

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What are Deiner’s (1980) 4 types of self-awareness?

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  • Poor self-monitoring of behaviour
  • Reduced need for social approval
  • Reduced inhibitions
  • Reduced rational thinking
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What is Hogg and Vaughan’s (2008) definition?

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Is a process whereby people loose their sense of socialised individual behaviour and engage in unsocialised, often anti-social behaviour

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Is the approach nature or nurture? Why?

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Nurture approach. If an individual was put into a situation where they were deindivdulised they may become aggressive even if they are not that type of person.

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Why could this approach be considered nature?

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Perhaps people who are already aggressive may set up accounts to target people and may choose jobs which allow them to wear uniforms

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What are the issues surrounding this topic? (2 points)

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  • Perhaps if their was a policy that restricted people to one Facebook account in their real name this would stop aggression/anti-social behaviour online
  • Prison guards and police should always have their face showing and a name badge to prevent them becoming deindividulised
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Why did the guards in Zimbardos study become aggressive?

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Because they became deindividulised due to wearing mirrored sunglasses, uniforms and caps - prisoners could not see who they were?

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What is some evaluation of Zimbardos study?

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  • The guards became aggressive and prisoners didn’t suggesting deindividulisation is nurture
  • BUT prisoners were also deindividulised, wore uniform, but became passive and obedient not aggressive
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What did Diener et al do and find? What does the study show?

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D: Had children trick or treat. 2 conditions one anonymous and one non-anonymous
F: 57% of anonymous group stole sweets, 21% of non-anonymous group did. When alone = 21%/8%
S: Being anonymous and in a group increases deindividulisation

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