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When in group settings, we are often influenced by the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of people around us. Whether it is due to normative or informational social influence, groups have the power to influence individuals. Another phenomenon of group conformity is groupthink.
- Conformity and Obedience
Each group of participants had only one true, naïve subject....
- Conformity and Obedience
- The Influence of Group Psychology
- How Group Psychology Affects Productivity
- Group Psychology Changes Decision-Making
- Creativity
- The Power of Groups
The seeds of group behaviour are sown even before its members meet. Just knowing that some people are on ‘our side’ and others are not begins to shape our social identity. Group affiliation soon grows even stronger, though, bending our behaviour further, if we undergo an initiation rite. A rite as simple as reading rude words out loud can produce a...
The amount and quality of the work we do (or don’t do) is regulated by the group. Sometimes groups have a social facilitationeffect on performance, spurring us on to greater achievements. This is most likely to happen when our own contribution is obvious and when we are judged in comparison to others. At other times groups encourage social loafing,...
One of the most important functions of modern groups is decision-making. The fates of our families, our corporations, even our nations, hang on our collective ability to make good decisions. Unfortunately psychologists have found that groups suffer all kinds of biases and glitches that lead to poor choices. Happily, though, experiments have reveale...
Creativity fosters economic growth, artistic innovation and technical breakthroughs, on all of which our society thrives. Groups, though, if badly organised, can stifle lofty ambitions. Psychologists have long known that the practice of ‘brainstorming‘ is a sure road to fewer new ideas and less innovation than that produced when we work individuall...
Groups may impose unwritten norms on us, warp or exaggerate our decisions, even dull our creativity, but these effects are often the flip side of forces that make groups strong. Despite the modern trend towards fractured neighbourhoods, families and workplaces, humanity cannot survive without banding together. We draw our psychological identity and...
Stephen Reicher, PhD, discusses why ‘mob mentality’ is a myth, other misconceptions about crowd behavior, and what we’ve learned about leaders, followers, group identity and collective behavior from COVID-19.
Learning Objectives. Illustrate when the presence of others is likely to result in groupthink, social facilitation, or social loafing. Groupthink. When in group settings, we are often influenced by the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors around us.
When in group settings, we are often influenced by the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors around us. Whether it is due to normative or informational social influence, groups have power to influence individuals. Another phenomenon of group conformity is groupthink.
For our purposes, a group is a set of people who have assembled for a common reason, whose activities are somehow combined into a single out- put, and who engage in some form of sustained interpersonal interaction.
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Mar 25, 2017 · Aside from the rare, notable exception (e.g., Buss, 1979), little work currently is being done on group behavior from a learning theoretic perspective. Our inclusion or exclusion of a theory reflects our judgment regarding its currency and accessibility to social psychological researchers.
