Invitation to Psychology

346 ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context The writer C. P. Snow once observed that “more hideous crimes have been c ...

ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context 347 prisoners. Then they “helped” beat up prisoners. Once they had obediently ...

348 ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context Attributions Situational Dispositional “Why is Aurelia so mean and crabby ...

ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context 349 3 The bias to believe that the world is fair. According to the just-world ...

350 ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context but it’s not the greatest crime, either. Now they take an important exam ...

ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context 351 and friends are trying to influence your attitudes. One weapon they use i ...

352 ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context are conscientious about order and obligations, to be drawn to conservativ ...

ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context 353 point out that both sets of attitudes would have had adaptive benefits ov ...

354 ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context but most terrorists are not easily distinguishable from the general popul ...

ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context 355 to the leader’s ideas. They are separated from their families, are indoct ...

356 ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context result of real or imagined group pressure. Suppose that you are required ...

ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context 357 extreme form of conformity called groupthink, the tendency for a group’s ...

358 ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context what they want to do and to demote or fire those who disagree on the grou ...

ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context 359 this explanation, because deindividuated people in crowds “forget themsel ...

360 ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context groups do not welcome nonconformity and dis- agreement. Most whistle-blow ...

ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context 361 experiment, the presence of someone who dis- obeyed the experimenter’s in ...

362 ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context attached to the group, and behave in ways that conform to the group’s rul ...

ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context 363 11- and 12-year-old boys to two groups, the Eagles and the Rattlers. To b ...

364 ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context grades is being selfish and disrespectful of adults. But Australian stude ...

ChapteR 10 Behavior in Social and Cultural Context 365 Mr. Y: But a recent study shows that the percentage of Jews in the bankin ...