G R O U P B E H AV I O R RA W ON PA R K

K E Y T E R M S

• Social facilitation

• Social loafing

• Deindividuation

• Group polarization

AC T I V I T Y

• How many times can you click in 30 seconds?

• https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1033827/

S OC I A L FAC I L I TAT I O N

• Norman Triplett - fishing reel

S O C I A L FAC I L I TAT I O N

• social facilitation : Improved performance on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others.

• Sports day

• This is not always the case!

• Acting in front of a crowd

S OC I A L LOA F I N G

• Tug-of-war experiment

• Group of people who were told that they were working with others : 82 % effort only!

• social loafing : the tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts towards attaining a common goal than when individually accountable

• Group project

S OC I A L LOA F I N G

• what causes social loafing?

• feel less responsible

• contribution = dispensable

• slack off due to shared benefit

D E I N D I V I D U AT I O N

• the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity (fuels riots)

• Internet

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ZLFGGsRNw

G R O U P P O L A R I Z AT I ON

• the enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group

• Thoughts on uniform

Q U I Z T I M E !

• What is the name of the psychologist who conducted an experiment that led to the discovery of the term social facilitation?

• True or False? In the Tug-of-war experiment, the participants who were told that they were working with other people tended to put more effort into pulling the rope.

• Please write down an example of a situation in which deindividuation can happen under

• When people who share the same belief interact with one another their beliefs get (weaker/stronger.)

C I TAT I O N

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ZLFGGsRNw

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGxGDdQnC1Y