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Social Influence & Atrocity Flashcards

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Social Influence

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• influence of others on you

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Conformity

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Someone changes their perception, opinion & behaviors in ways that are consistent with group norms

  1. Compliance
  2. Acceptance
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Compliance

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  • Conformity that involves publicly acting or going along with others, while privately disagreeing
  • ex: you are new at work & everybody is going to applebees & you hate applebees, but go anyway to conform with the group norm
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Acceptance

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• Conformity that involves both going along AND privately agreeing

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Why do we conform?

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  • Normative influence

* Informational Influence

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Normative influence

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  • to be liked or accepted by others

* ex: smoke in the room experiment

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Informative influence

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• to solve uncertainty & get info about what is the right thing to do

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What increases informational influence?

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  • Crisis (ex: 9/11)
  • When others are experts
  • When being accurate is important
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Emotional Contagion in Groups

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  • Transfer of moods and emotions among ppl in groups or in group settings.
  • positive: sports, happiness in friendship groups.
  • negative: anxiety, negative thoughts at work
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Groupthink: “going along to get along”

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  • Mode of thinking
  • don’t really aim for the best decision
  • desire for harmony, agreement & don’t want to rock the boat.
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What are the characteristics of group thinks?

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  • feeling of invulnerability
  • tendency to ignore/discredit info
  • stress from external threats
  • influential leader
  • self-censorship (deciding out of fear)
  • isolation from outside influences`
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Social Roles: Zimbardo Experiment

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  • shared expectations about how a person who occupies a particular position is supposed to behave or act
  • Results: guards become abusive, prisoners became passive & withdrawn.
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Leadership Obedience

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Complying with a direct command from an authority figure

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Milgrim’s Shock experiment

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  • “how we respond to authority:
  • results: 65% went all the way to the end
  • shows power of the situation
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Reasons for obedience

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  • Socialized to follow order
  • Informational social influence
  • Self-consistency (if you already started, might as well finish)
  • Doing bad for, “good” reason
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Public conformity

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Superficial change done publicly

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Private conformity

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Chance of belief that occurs privately

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Idiosyncrasy Credit

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• “credit” person earns by following group norms

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Transactive Memory

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• shared system to remember
• for success:
1. Trust
2. Division of knowledge
3. Effort
4. Know who knows what
5. Communication
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Social Dilemma

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• Good for one, bad for everybody else

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Group polorization

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• exaggerations of tendencies in “group think”

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Biased Sampling

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• spending more time sharing known info, rather than spending more time sharing UNKNOWN info

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Social impact theory

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  1. Strength (how important the ppl are)
  2. Immediacy (how close you are to the ppl)
  3. # of people: how many ppl are in the group
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Genocide

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• Deliberate & systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group

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Internal bystanders

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• Within the population that act like everything is normal, ignore the violence & often participate in discriminating against the victims

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External bystanders

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  • outside groups looking in
  • typically remain passive
  • use minimal intervention
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5 steps to inhumanity via IDENTITY

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  1. Create an in-group
  2. Exclusion, exclude out group
  3. Threat, place out group as threat
  4. Virtue, represent the ingroup as GOOD
  5. Celebration, celebrate inhumanity as defense of heroism
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Milgram defense

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Results of the study made the study unethical

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Ethics & The Institutional Review Board

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  • Participants should be treated with care and respect

* Researchers must tell the participants what they are getting into

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