How groups can influence people in positive and negative ways People have many different roles in life‚ these roles serve many different purposes. It is in these roles we find we belong to different groups this makes up our social identity. It is these groups that can have negative or positive effect on ourselves. People can be part of the ’in-group ’ or the ’out-group ’. The ’in-group ’ being people who belong to the group which we consider we also belong to. The ’out-group ’ being people
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Journal of Social Work (2006) 36‚777-788‚ doi:10.1093/bjsw/bch323‚ Advance Access publication October 31‚ 2005: My reflection on this article (attached). Ruch identified four types of reflective learning: 1. technical rationality and level of knowledge 2. practical personal assumptions and beliefs 3. process focus on conscious and unconscious (psychodynamic) development of reflective self 4. Critical challenges existing social‚ political and cultural conditions. As a social worker I need
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Throughout my life I have experienced many different psychological devices that I was unaware existed until we began to study them in psychology. These ranged from the bystander effect to conformity within groups of my peers throughout school. I would like to discuss some of them and some situations in which they were a part of my life experiences. One experience in my life is an instance of the bystander effect. My example is what you would think of as cliché‚ like a scene from a movie or something
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The Risky Shift: The Effects of Group Influence on Individual Risk-Taking Tee Kai Yee Department of Psychology University of Sheffield Abstract This experiment is a replication of Wallach‚ Kogan and Bem (1962) study on Group influence on individual risk taking. The aim for this experiment is to investigate the effects of shift in risk across the pre-discussion‚ group-discussion
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directed by Sidney Lumet illustrates many social psychological principles. The tense‚ gripping storyline that takes place in the 1950s features a group of jurors who must decide unanimously whether a young man is guilty or innocent in the murder of his father. At the beginning‚ eleven of the twelve jurors voted guilty. Gradually‚ through some heated discussion‚ the jurors are swayed to a not-guilty verdict. Upon examination‚ the film highlights social psychology theories in areas of conformity and group
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defined as a set of individuals who share a common social identification of themselves in terms of that crowd. Crowd members should also share common goals and act in a coherent member (Reicher‚ 2008). There have been extensive amounts of research into crowd psychology‚ investigating the apparent causes and reasons for such behaviour to occur. Many different theories exist to attempt to explain why people fall into this interesting state of social influence when they are in crowds. This essay will
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other individuals. The issue of whether or not true altruism exists has been studied by social psychologists for a number of years. A brief summary of both sides of this argument will be provided. Each side as described by Jason Nier will be evaluated. One individual’s perspective on the subject will be explained. Understanding both perspectives on this issue will enable professionals in the field of social psychology to develop their own opinions of the issue and in turn provide a better quality of
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Background: Stanley Milgram (1933-1984) a social psychologist was regarded as one of the most
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In what way does an individual’s change when s/he is part of a group? Humans by nature are social creatures‚ therefore must have social behaviours‚ this suggests that individuals instinctively desire to be part of a group (Davis and Witte 1996). This contributed to the large amount of research and interest in the area of group behaviour. However there are difficulties in defining what exactly a group is. Definitions vary because of different ideas of what the purpose and nature of a group may
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Milgram’s obedience to authority experiment countered the participant’s moral beliefs against the demands of authority. For this study‚ Milgram took out a newspaper ad that offered $4.50 for one hour of work‚ at Yale University‚ for a psychology experiment that sought to investigate memory and learning. Participants were told that the study would look at the relationship of punishment in learning‚ and that one person would be the teacher‚ and the other would be the learner (a confederate)
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