What's happening here?
Studies and Experiments
Have you 'Herd'?
We Live in a Society....
100

Going along with the group answer, and believing in that answer yourself.

What is private acceptance?

100

This experimenter created a prison simulation in which he made himself the warden. 

Who is Zimbardo?

100

Conforming to groups you belong to! 

What is herd mentality?

100

Implicit or explicit rules that a group has for what are and are not acceptable behaviors

What are social norms?

200

Going along with the group to give an answer, but not believing in it.

What is public compliance?

200

This experiment separated college students into prisoners and guards, studying deinividuation.

What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?

200

When an idea spreads through a group of people!

What is Social Contagion?

200

SOMETIMES PEOPLE JUST WANT TO BE LIKED SO THEY GO ALONG WITH THE GROUP!!!!!!!

What is Normative Social Influence?

300

A small group of feminists began referring to unmarried women as "Ms." instead of "Miss". Today, many unmarried women go by "Ms."

What is an example of minority influence?

300

This experiment was created to figure out why so many people conformed and went along with the Nazis.

What is Milgram's shock experiment?

300

When people are not having their individual performance evaluated, they tend to perform worse on simple tasks and better on complex tasks.

What is Social Loafing?

300

If I tried to tie my shoes in front of you all, I would do GREAT. But if I tried to untie a very complicated knot that I've never attempted to untie before, I'd do BAD :(

What is social facilitation?

400

An elevator gets stuck. Someone on the elevator is an engineer. He says to jump up and down. No one else has ever been in a stuck elevator before. They all jump/

What is informational social influence?

400

This experimenter said that people fluctuate between the autonomous state and agentic state.

Who is Milgram?

400

When people are being watched they tend to perform better on simple tasks and worse on more complex tasks. 

What is Social Facilitation?

400

This concept partially explains why people can be so cruel when they are anonymous online.

What is deindividuation?

500

Joe always wears a really bold hat. His friends tolerate him wearing it, because Joe's normally pretty cool. But if someone else wore that hat, they would likely make fun of it. Why?

What is Joe has idiosyncrasy credits? 

500

In this experiment, people caved in to Normative Social Influence by publicly complying to a group judgement without privately accepting the wrong information.

What is Asch's Line Experiment?

500

According to Social Impact Theory these are the three factors that impact our likelihood to conform.

What are strength, immediacy, and number?

500

This refers to an individual acting in their own self interest even though they're dealing with a public resource.

What is the tragedy of the commons?

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