social facilitation (triplett)

• presence of others arouses people, improving performance on easy or well-learned tasks but decreasing it on difficult ones
• home team advantage
  • when others observe us, we perform well-learned tasks more quickly

social influence

• social loafing
  • tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable
    • individual feels less accountable
    • if i don't do anything, my groupmates will get it done
  • causes
    • acting as part of group + feeling less accountable
    • feeling individual contribution does not matter
    • taking advantage when there is lack of identification with group
• deindividuation
  • involves loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity
  • we act in the interest of the group
  • you're not an individual, the group is the individual
  • more likely to do things we would not do if we were alone

group polarization + groupthink

• group polarization

  • group disucssions with like-minded others strengthen members' prevailing beliefs + attitudes
  • internet communication magnifies this effect, for better and for worse

• groupthink

  • people are driven by a desire for harmony within a decision-making group, overriding realistic appraisal of alternatives

• individual power

  • power of the individual and the power of the situation interact
  • a small minority that consistently expresses its viwes may sway the majority

  

• we surround ourselves with individuals who think in a similiar way

anti-social and pro-social behavior

• anti-social
  • prejudice, discrimination
  • aggression
• prosocial behavior
  • attraction and liking
  • love-companionate, passionate
  • helping behavior- the bystander effect
  • peacemaking

antisocial relations

• prejudice
  • means "prejudgment"
  • unjustified negative attitude towards some group and its members
  • often targets different cultural, ethnic, or gender group
  • neg attitude, discrimination is neg behavior
• components
  • beliefs
  • emotions
  • predispositions to action (to discriminate)

social roots of prejudice

• social inequalities