Deindividuation
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- DEINDIVIDUATION
- Le Bon 1895
- An individual is transformed when part of a crowd
- In a crowd = Anonymity, suggestibility and contagion = COLLECTIVE MIND
- = loss of self control and capable of acting in a way that goes against social or personal norms
- In a crowd = Anonymity, suggestibility and contagion = COLLECTIVE MIND
- An individual is transformed when part of a crowd
- The nature of Denindividuation
- Low self evaluation and deceased concern about evaluation by others
- Increased behaviour which would normally be inhibited by the person
- Factors which contribute to deindividuation
- ANONYMITY
- ALTERED CONCIOUSNESS (DRUGS OR ALCOHOL)
- Can be a positive things such as at music festivals
- Low self evaluation and deceased concern about evaluation by others
- Process of Deindivuation
- Reduces inner constraints
- Can diminish awareness
- faceless and anonymous in large crowds
- removed sense of fear of negative evaluation
- reduced sense of guilt
- Research into deindivduation
- Zimbardo 1969 Prison experiment
- Men volunteered to take part, they were arrested at their houses and taken to police station then to the basement of Stanford University
- Their identities were taken away as they were given uniforms to either be a prison guard or a prisoner
- Behaved extremely aggressively and after the study which was stopped early after 6 days said they could'nt believe they acted so aggressively
- Their identities were taken away as they were given uniforms to either be a prison guard or a prisoner
- Men volunteered to take part, they were arrested at their houses and taken to police station then to the basement of Stanford University
- Milgram's shock study
- participant asked to shock confederate when they got an answer wrong
- Because there was a veil of identity 65% administered the 450v shock and only 1 person refused to go past the 300v
- Zimbardo 1969 Prison experiment
- Evaluation
- Zimbardo's study:
- They could have acted aggressivley because of local group norms
- Because they associate more aggressive behaviour with that of a prison guard
- However if they were dressed as nurses- like they were in one study done by a researcher they would not act as aggressively
- Therefore is it de individuation or the situation they find themselves in and the norms they believe are correct for certain roles so they act in certain ways
- However if they were dressed as nurses- like they were in one study done by a researcher they would not act as aggressively
- Because they associate more aggressive behaviour with that of a prison guard
- They could have acted aggressivley because of local group norms
- Milgram's study
- In lab conditions
- Therefore cant be generalised to everyone
- Also the fact it only used males so cant be generalised to females/ wider population
- Therefore cant be generalised to everyone
- In lab conditions
- Zimbardo's study:
- RWA/ IDA
- Issue of gender bias over research.
- Most studies use males however cannavale found women repsond differenlty to deindivudation
- Milgram and zimbardo used males
- So cant be generalised to females
- Milgram and zimbardo used males
- Most studies use males however cannavale found women repsond differenlty to deindivudation
- RWA: Baiting of crowds with suicide jumpers
- Mann 1981. Deindividuated mob. 21 suicide leaps. 10 of them had a baiting crowd
- tended to occur at night, large crowds. therefore this created de individuation.
- Mann 1981. Deindividuated mob. 21 suicide leaps. 10 of them had a baiting crowd
- Issue of gender bias over research.
- Le Bon 1895
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