Experiments
One of the most famous psych studies involves using lines to show that individuals will do this action when every other member in a group made a choice, even if that norm was the obviously wrong one
What is conform?
Selfishly pursuing your own self-interest you want to get out of jail time or get extra credit on a test is known as this person's dilemma
What is a prisoner?
This facial expression titles a 2022 horror movie whose viral marketing included sending people to sporting events to perform that title facial expression for hours
What is Smile?
Psychologists have been wondering "What is Love" for years and one of the key factors they've studied is this word used in Physics to mean "a force in which objects tend to move toward each other"
What is attraction?
This is the branch of Psychology that studies how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by other people or by norms
What is Social Psychology?
Smoking, being in a doomsday "c"ult, and believing the lie you told after only receiving $1 are all experimentally tested examples of two word term for the "bad sound" created in your head when your beliefs and behaviors don't gel
What is cognitive dissonance?
This is the word used for compliance with an "o"rder that was studied by Millgram for understanding why people do what a guy in a lab coat tells them to do.
What is obedience?
Folie a Deux is the thrilling sequel to this comedic guy's story where he meets Harley Quinn
Who is the Joker?
Don't give me any of this feeling that predisposes one to respond in a particular way (particularly rude, normally) to objects, people, and events
What is attitude?
This California college's prison experiment in 1971 was ended more than a week early after immense psychological harm to the participants
What is Stanford?
Lyndon assumes that because Kennedy is really attractive that they are also really nice. This is an example of what "angelic" sounding phenomena
What is the halo effect?
This two word phenomenon assumes that "people get what they deserve" and can be a common cognitive bias that victim blames so our fantasy of "good things happen to good people" on our fair planet can remain true
What is the Just World Phenomenon?
In the 2010 movie Shutter Island this Titanic actor plays a detective looking into the disappearance of a woman at a mental asylum but finds that his own mind might be working against him
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?
This "burnt-out" scientist was behind the line study that focused on group norms
Who is Solomon Asch?
Both Stanley Milgram and Martin Seligman had famous Psychological studies using this "surprising" mechanism of electricity
What is shock?
This end of the alphabet guy acted as the head psychologist and the warden in the 1971 Prison Experiment at the college he was researching at
Who is Phillip Zimbardo?
Kitty Genovese was a New York woman who was murdered despite there being 37 witnesses to the crime. She is typically cited as an example for this effect in which onlookers see something but do not act because they believe someone else will
What is the Bystander Effect?
A ballerina's psychological illnesses plague her in the movie Black Swan where the titular character is played by this actress who was healed by Mjolnir in Thor: Love and Thunder
Who is Natalie Portman?
This word is the way in which we give an explanation for someone's behavior and it can either be internal, believing that their long-term personality impacts them, or situational, believing that the environment impacts them. Don't make the fundamental error!
What is attribution?
This alliterative bias means that people are more likely to take credit for their success and blame others for their failure, not that you can get yourself a plate of food
What is self-serving bias?
You can experiment with this "phenomenon" of persuasion by requesting a small favor before asking for a bigger one, in order to prop things open in order to make it harder for someone to close you out and say no
What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
"Hello Clarice" says Hannibal Lecter in this 1991 movie that might be best enjoyed with a Chianti and some fava beans
What is the Silence of the Lambs?
Prison guards (who were actually college students) wore these fly glasses in a 1971 study in order to reinforce the unequal power dynamics
What are aviators?
This type of attribution focuses on the events in someone's environment to explain their behavior rather than someone's personality
What is situational?