ramifications‚ as evidenced from the enormous power mass protests can wield. Le Bon (1895) was the first person to introduce the concept of a ‘group mind’. His work came under much criticism‚ but it influenced social psychology in many ways‚ with later deindividuation theorists building on his work‚ as well as the social identity theory viewing crowd behaviour from another aspect. This essay aims to evaluate if anonymity in crowds is associated with a ‘loss of self’ according to all of the above perspectives
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Outline and evaluate two social psychological explanations There are two social psychological approaches to aggression. These are social learning theory (SLT) and deindividuation theory (DT). Both these theories stress that aggression is a learnt process‚ they believe that aggression is due to our nurture and not in our nature. They dispute the biological approach to aggression. Social learning theory was proposed by Alburt Bandura. He used the word modeling to explain how humans can quickly learn
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from others. Being anonymous in a crowd has the psychological consequence of reducing restraints and increasing behaviours that are usually inhibited. Prentice- Dunn and Rogers (1982) suggested that an increase in aggressive behaviour following deindividuation might be caused by the reduced privacy rather than public self- awareness‚ i.e. becoming less self-aware rather than being anonymous to
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For many years mainstream social psychological research tended to concentrate on face-to-face‚ romantic love relationships among heterosexuals in contemporary western cultures. It’s logical for Psychologists to focus on certain types of relationships such as heterosexual ones as they are the dominant type of relationship in society. There is mixed support for similarity in same-sex couples. Kurdek’s early study found that there was very little similarity in gay couples‚ except for age. On the
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a Unanimous Majority.’ Psychological Monographs: General and Applied. 70 (9) PP 1-70 [Online] Available from: http://libary.hud.ac.uk/summon [Accessed 4 December 2012] Beaman‚ A.L.‚ Diener‚ E.‚ Fraser‚ S.C.‚ Kelem‚ G.T. (1976) ‘Effect of deindividuation variables on stealing among Halloween trick-or-treaters.’ Journal of personality and social psychology. 37(2) PP178-183 Available at: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/33/2/178/ [Accessed 12 December 2012] Banks‚ C.‚ Haney‚ C.‚ Zimbardo
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The power of social influence has been a subject of extensive research (Hogg‚ 1992). The notion that groups working towards a mutual goal perform better than independent individuals has been largely accepted not only by social psychologists but also by employers (Abrams‚ Wetherell‚ Cochrane‚ Hogg & Turner‚ 2001). Employers for example would often suggest team building exercises because they recognize the importance of group cohesiveness and entitattivity (Baron‚ Brainscombe‚ & Byrne‚ 2009). Group
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yourself. (Kristalyn Salters-Pedneault‚ PhD) There are many theories of aggression‚ namely: Frustration-Aggression Theory Social Learning Theory Instinctive-Aggression Theory Relative Deprivation Theory Cue-Arousal Theory Excitation-Transfer Theory Deindividuation
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crowds produces a man losing his personal and social responsibility Freud described crowd behaviour as the unconscious ‘ID’ being released whilst the superego is supressed. Early studies paved way for idea of deindividuation. Zimbardo (1970) Created model of deindividuation Anonymity = loss of personal responsibility Social pressures to conform and behave relieved. Diener (1980) added to zimbardos framework stating that in crowds we have poor self-monitoring and this in turn reduces
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Deindividuation theory (Postmes & Spears‚ 1998) explains how membership in a large group places individuals in an agentic state where they act on behalf on their group’s beliefs. Bowles (2016) mentions how aggression is typically experienced through online forums
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They found that the participants in the lab coats gave twice the amount of shocks than the other group. This experiment does support the deindividuation theory but lacks population validity because all of the participants were women. The sample size was also very small and so it is difficult to generalise the results. Also‚ most research into deindividuation suggests that it is always related to anti-social behaviour but it can be pro-social; behaviour that is supportive of
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