In Revised version when they were permitted to write down their answers.

Larger Group results

This state represents that individuals make decisions based on their own ideas, beliefs, judgments, and experience. And take responsibility for their action.

People allow others to direct their action and the pass off the responsibility for the consequences to the person giving the order, act as an agent.

Condition leads to obedience:

Hostile or negative attitude toward a group (relative or absolute terms)

It is a belief about a certain group of people

Could be +/-

The experiment was divided into 3 stages

1.

The experiment was divided into 3 stages

2.

Conflict can arise between different group that have different goal and are competing over limited resources.

Prejudice stems from direct competition between social groups, in-group and out-group, over scarce and valuable resources

žSolomon Asch: Conformity

žStanley Milgram: Obedience to Authority

žMuzafer Sherif: Prejudice and the Robber’s Cave

Theodore Newcombe – Attitude Change in College

The experiment was divided into 3 stages

1.to build feelings of attachment within the groups the members were encouraged to cooperate with each other . the groups gave them a name,

Rattlers

Eagle

The experiment was divided into 3 stages

2. Groups were introduced to each other

Groups became teams that were to compete against each other in several games

The experiment was divided into 3 stages

3.

arranging for some ingenious scenarios ……

1.arranging for the failure of camps water supply

2.arranging for the food truck to get stuck

Solomon Asch: Conformity

Theodore Newcomb: Attitude change in college

Muzaffer Sheriff: Prejudice

Stanley Milgram: Obedience

–FOLLOWING FASHION:The human population is a herd. They are following each other since the very start of life. What to wear and how to wear is the primary social norm to be followed in today’s era. We are thoughtlessly following our fashion icons or other people. If any of us try to wear which is odd to what society wears, we are considered to be abnormal

1. When individuals who don't know each other are brought together to interact in group activities in order to achieve common goals, they will produce a group structure with hierarchical statuses and roles within it.

2. When two in-groups, once formed, are brought into functional relationships under conditions of competition and group frustration, attitudes and appropriate hostile actions in relation to the out-group and its members will arise; these will be standardized and shared in varying degrees by group members.

when confederates (fake participants) uniformly gave a particular response in a group setting, the lone true participant would feel pressure to conform to the group consensus.

under the right circumstances, people would follow the directions of an authority figure to the extent of harming or even killing other people.

when people who hold one set of attitudes find themselves immersed in a larger group whose attitudes are very different?

In times of high unemployment, there may be high levels of racism among white people who believe that black people (or asylum seekers) have taken their jobs.