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A study of prisoners and guards in a simulated prison.

Haney, Banks & Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment on obedience

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behavioural study of obedience

Milgram obedience to authority 1963

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Festinger, 1957's theory forced compliance, behaviour and decision making and effort are areas that contribute to...

theory of cognitive dissonance - the idea that people justify their behaviour when it is causing cognitive discomfort
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Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

Festinger, 1957 attitudes are justified to reduce discomfort

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explanation for why people do not tend to help others lies more in this effect than their indifference to the victim

bystander intervention diffusion of responsibility Darley & Latane 1968

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Buss, Abbott, Angleitner, Asherian, Biaggio et al. 1990, preferences for...

common characteristics are important to both sexes across all cultures (biological attraction)

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effects of group pressure upon the modification and distortion of judgments

Asch's(1951) study on conformity

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provides support for the fundamental attribution error

Social roles, social control and biases Ross, Lee et al. 1977

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Cialdini's information alters...

type of information (normative vs declaritive) alters how people behave

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managing social norms for persuasive impact

Cialdini 2006 park signs

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groups were more concerned about creating as much difference as possible between the amounts allocated to themselves and the other group RATHER than consolidating a greater amount for everyone

Intergroup discrimination, Tajfel 1970

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Rollie & Duck, 2005 "Handbook...

Duck's stages of relationship dissolution

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international preferences in selecting mates: a study of 37 cultures

Buss, Abbott, Angleitner, Asherian, Biaggio et al. 1990 biological attraction


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intensify the search for ways to strengthen the social fabric with the development of a sense of community

McMillan, David & Chavis, David 1986 factors that bud a sense of community

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Bargh, Chen & Burrows 1996 "Automaticity...

social behaviour is triggered by features in the environment (cues trigger stereotyped behaviour)

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