Assignment 2:Comic:The Daily John

The Concepts: •Stereotypes•Halo Effect•Social Loafing•Social Facilitation•Discrimination

STEREOTYPING

• A SOCIAL-SHARED SET OF GENERAL BELIEFS ABOUT CERTAIN GROUPS

• GENERALISING A GROUP BASED ON AN ATTRIBUTE SHARED AMONGST GROUP MEMBERS - I.E. RACE, SKIN COLOUR, RELIGION, GENDER ETC

• John Doe was under the impression that Asians are hard workers

• But the idea contradicted to what he saw• Which was a bunch of Asians just hanging out

during office hours

• PERSON’S ONE GOOD CHARACTER OR PERFORMANCE MIGHT INFLUENCE THE OBSERVER’S OVERALL IMPRESSION OF THE PERSON

HALO EFFECT

• RAJ PHYSICALLY LOOKS SMART AND PROPER • EVERYONE WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT RAJ

IS A GOOD OFFICE WORKER• THAT WAS NOT THE CASE WITH JOHN

SOCIAL LOAFING

• THE TENDENCY FOR PEOPLE IN A GROUP TO GIVE LESS EFFORT TOWARDS ATTAINING A COMMON GOAL THAN WHEN INDIVIDUALLY ACCOUNTABLE.

• FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN WORKING ON A GROUP ASSIGNMENT, ONLY A FEW OF PEOPLE WILL REALLY PUT THEIR EFFORTS IN.

• Upon being placed in a group with Omputeh and Ali – John had observed their behaviours

• Ali in particular – seemed distracted, and decided to take a ‘bathroom break’

• A LONG ‘bathroom break’• Seeing that both Omputeh and John were being attentive to the task at

hand, the sense of work-force dependency and responsibility from Ali’s point of view were significantly reduced

• Hence – Reduced in work performance = Social Loafing

SOCIAL FACILITATION

• INDIVIDUALS PERFORM BETTER IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHER PEOPLE OR WHEN IN A GROUP

• PREVIOUSLY, OMPUTEH WAS CHITCHATTING IN THE OFFICE BUT DURING MEETINGS HE WAS BEING PRO-ACTIVE AND PRODUCTIVE

• THIS SHOWS SOCIAL FACILITATION – BECAUSE OMPUTEH PERFORMED BETTER IN A GROUP AS OPPOSE TO WORKING ALONE

DISCRIMINATION

• A NEGATIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS MEMBERS OF A GROUP.

• RAJ ASKED JOHN TO COME HANG OUT WITH HIM• JOHN DECLINED THE INVITATION UNDER THE PRECONCEPTION

THAT RAJ IS AN OVERALL BAD PERSON• DUE TO THE FACT THAT JOHN DECLINED BECAUSE OF RAJ’S

ATTITUDE – THIS SHOWS JOHN’S DISCRIMINATION TOWARDS RAJ

Credits

Lee Fei Syen@Jeanette Lee Vun Tze Lin @Rainnie Vunn Thomas Ting Harris Aziz

Lecturer: Shankar Thiruchelvam