De-individuation
- Created by: Hannah Jeffery
- Created on: 01-03-15 12:41
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- De-individuation Theory
- Le- Bon
- combination of anonymity, suggestibility and contagion can influence on individual
- individual loses self-control and incapable of acting in a way that goes against personal and social norms
- combination of anonymity, suggestibility and contagion can influence on individual
- De-individuation
- lowered self-evaluation and decreased concerns about evaluation for others
- increase in behaviour that would normally be inhibited
- anonymity can be caused by uniforms
- zimbardo
- male students
- half prison guards, half prisoners
- guards wore a uniform and dark glasses
- within hours guards began to harass prisoners
- taunting them with insults
- within hours guards began to harass prisoners
- guards wore a uniform and dark glasses
- diminished awareness of our own individuality
- anti-social behaviour is based on a lack of guilt or shame
- zimbardo
- faceless crowd
- Mullen analysed newspaper articles of lynching's in USA
- the more people the more savage killings
- Mullen analysed newspaper articles of lynching's in USA
- reduced private self-awareness
- believed that anti-social behaviour in a crowd was due to an individual not focusing on their attitudes and moral standards
- when they submerge themselves in a group the lack of self awareness leads to them not regulating their own behaviour
- evaluation
- Postmes and spears meta- analysis of 60 studies
- insufficient evidence
- not a common correlation between anonymity and anti social behaviour
- giving money anonymously
- pro-social behaviour
- can be increased by de-individuation
- spivey et al
- due to situational factors
- eg prosocial environmental factors of a prosocial model led to altruistic acts such as giving money than anti-social behaviour eg electric shocks
- due to situational factors
- spivey et al
- can be increased by de-individuation
- online de-individuation
- francais found that adolescents were more likely to speak out over the net
- real life application
- gender bias
- Diener
- females and males respond differently to de-individuation
- males more likely to experience disinhibition than females in a group
- evolution
- real life application
- 10 out of 21 cases of suicides had been urged on by a crowd
- mann et al
- occurred at night when crowd large and great distance from the individual
- Postmes and spears meta- analysis of 60 studies
- Le- Bon
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