PSY 380Thursday March 09, 2000

Today's Topics:

Conforming to Social Roles

Introduction to Group Influence

Announcements

Exam 2 on Tuesday 3/14

covers Ch. 5-8, Snyder, Santos from CP

Exam Review Session on Monday March 13, 7-9pm, this room

Exam Review Sheet available on the website & in section

If your GSI is Amara, Jeremy, or Mischa (sections 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 13), you will take the exam in 1324 East Hall (lecture hall). If your GSI is Laura or Greg (sections 6, 7, 9, 10), you will take the exam in 1202 SEB (School of Education Building, 610 E. University). If your GSI is Catherine (sections 2, 3), you will take the exam in 1640 Chemistry (930 N. University).

Definition of group

group

social group

nonsocial group

What's so special about groups?

evolutionary explanation

public display of group identity

social ostracism

Consequences of being in a group

Social norms are established that guide behavior

Social roles: shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave

Stanford Prison Experiment(Zimbardo et al., 1971)

One Conclusion

People easily do what they might not normally do when the social role dictates that they should act in that particular way.

Can also occur when we know we can't be personally identified.

People do things in groups that they would not do alone.

Deindividuation

Factors that increase deindividuation

Factors that decrease deindividuation