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Social Psychology (Chapter 8)

• Lecture Outline
• Norms and Roles
• Compliance and obedience
• Milgram and Zimbardo (M146)

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WOULD EVERYONE PLEASE STAND UP?
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Following the crowd

• What norms are you conforming to right now?
• Norms Rules about how we are supposed to act
• -Uncontrollable laughter during class, church
• -Conformity Doing what others do, e.g., cross
  against red
• Roles How people of certain identities should
  behave
• -e.g., Clean cut, well dressed bands vs. The
  Beatles
• Culture Shared rules, values, beliefs,
  pasttimes

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Compliance and Obedience

• Compliance Doing what someone has asked you to
  do
• e.g., get on protest bus what are we
  protesting?
• Obedience Following orders
• e.g., we can be cruel to others when ordered to
  be so
• Cults are examples of conformity, compliance, and
  obedience out of control

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Milgram study videotape
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Milgram Study

• Would people violate their own ethical standards
  and obey instructions to be cruel to others?
• 66 to 90 will deliver unreasonable levels of
  electric shock when told the experiment requires
  that you continue
• Victim behavior did not matter, even screams,
  heart condition, silence
• Disobedience was common when experimenter was a
  normal person, experimenter left the room, victim
  was in room, peers refused to obey, or two
  experimenters gave conflicting demands

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Zimbardo prison study videotape
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Zimbardo study

• Random assignment as a prisoner or guard
• Mock jail in basement of psychology building
• Guards controlled prisoner life, but became
  abusive, overstepped their authority, quickly
  adapted to role
• Premature termination of the study was required,
  prisoners were greatly relieved

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Crimes of obedience

• No personal responsibility, authority is to be
  blamed for your action Just following orders
• Routinization, making the abuse seem normative,
  minimal, part of procedure
• Rules of good manners, abusing others because you
  do not know how to stop Could not say no
• Entrapment. People become more violent and
  extreme when isolated and are heavily invested in
  what they are doing, e.g., Alcatraz prison guards
  got Carried away

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Entry into university

• What roles are taken on during frosh orientation?
• Frosh boss takes on role of authority
• New students expect to play role of obedient new
  person
• Potentially abusive/ exploitive, thus must be
  watched very closely to ensure experience is
  positive Must ensure informative
  non-discriminatory
• Purpose Group identity formation, attitude
  change, new role adoption, transition
• Similar to hazing rituals for sports, groups

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Frosh Boss Principles This is not Zimbardo

• Respect
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Balance and moderation
• Accountability
• Acceptance