Social psychological explanations: Di-individuation
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- Created on: 20-04-18 12:06
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- De-individuation applied to aggression:
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- De-individuation refers to reduced sense of personal responsibilty:
- Zimbardo argued behaviour is usually constrained ny socia norms - aggressive behaviour is usually discouraged. But when we become part of a crowd we lose restraint and may behave in emotional, impulsive and irrational ways - we become de-indiviuated and lose individual self-identity and responsibilty for our own behaviour. responsibility is shared throughout the crowd - we ignore social norms and experience less personal guilt at harmful aggression directed at others.
- Anonymity is a major condition of de-indiviuation:
- Several conditions of de-individuation promote aggression (e.g. darkness, uniforms) - a major one is anonymity. We have less fear of retribution because we are unidentifiable in a crowd - the bigger the growd, the greater the anonymity. Anonymity provides fewer opportunites for others to judge us negatively.
- Anonymity reduces private self-awareness:
- Prentice-Dunn and Rogers argue that anonymity reduces private self-awareness because our attention is focussed outwardly to the events around us. This means that we think less about our own beliefs and feelings - we are less self-critical and evauloative.
- Anonymity reduces public self-awareness:
- Anonymity also reduces public self-awareness because we realise we are anonymous and out behavout is less likely to be judged by others. We no longer care how others see us - we become less accountable for our aggressive and destructive actions.
- Key study: Dodd. Student de-individuation:
- Procedure: Dodd asked psychology students: 'if you could do anything humanly possible with complete assurance that you would nit be detected or held responsible, what would you…
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