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Social Roles: The Stanford Prison Experiment
• Guard responses–Justified action through need to maintain order–Uniform provided power and deindividuation
• Prisoner responses–Dehumanized–Isolated–Learned to be helpless
• Ethical concerns
The Situation Can Also Be Manipulated for Good
Helping -- Personality doesn’t matter as much as situational factors
• How the help is asked for• Whether the helper is in a hurry• The mood and previous situation of the helper• Characteristics of the victim• Whether there is room for diffusion of
responsibility
Culture: Changing our Construal of Self and Society
• Independent vs. Interdependent Views of the Self– Defining the self – Attending to actors vs. situations– Forming preferences for figures and pens– Forming social goals
• Cultural Variation within the United States
Construal and Attitudes
• Perceiving Social Reality– Hastorf & Cantril “They Saw a Game”
• Cognitive Dissonance– Festinger & Carlsmith (1959)
• Self-Fulfilling Prophesies– Rosenthal & Jacobson (1968)– Snyder (1978)