Social psychological explanations of aggression
- Created by: Ambrosia
- Created on: 18-02-14 11:35
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- Deindividuation AO1
- Deindividuation is reduced self eval, lack of care of what others think
- leads to increase in antisocial behaviour, more likely to occur in large crowds or when drunk
- Inhibitions for antisocial behaviour removed when deindividuated
- Conditions that increase anonymity weaken barriers to antisocial behaviour
- In large crowds, less able to regulate self behaviour
- Reduced self awareness more important than anonymity
- Lynchings more savage in large crowds (mullen 1981) Baiting crowd
- Deindividuation is reduced self eval, lack of care of what others think
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