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Social Psychology
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Questioners' Ratings Contestants' Ratings Observers' Ratings
Rating of Questioner
Rating of Contestant
Errors and Biases
• Fundamental Attribution Error
• Actor-Observer Bias
• Just World Bias
Conformity
• Sherif: Autokinetic Effect
• Asch: Judging Lines– Can a group make you
change your perceptions?
– How can we rule out confounds?
Obedience: Milgram Study
• The Situation
• Predictions: How far would people go?
• How far did people go?
• Over 60% went all the way -- even when the “learner” stopped responding
Why did they obey?
• Normative expectations
• Freedom from responsibility
• Ambiguity of alternatives
• Step by step approach -- “Slippery Slope”
• Proximity of victim
• Proximity of authority