DAILY COMMENTARY Why do people who have power often abuse it? In your Interactive Notebook: Unit.Day 2.5 Power of the Role & Social Status Unit 2 – Social Psychology: ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: How do people influence each other? How do psychological factors affect decision-making? DAILY COMMENTARY Why do people who have power often abuse it? TURN IN: Place Discussion Questions in box ON YOUR DESK: 1) reading journal 2) Daily commentary notebook 3)computers Today’s OBJECTIVE(S) -- WRITE THESE DOWN: I can use the Stanford Prison experiment to explain te power of role and social status on individual behavior

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DQ’S, Updates & Reminders BIG PICTURE Friday Quizzes September 13 & September 20 Projects Due Thursday, September 5th Experiment Project Unit Exam: Monday, September 9th Tonight’s Homework: RJ 2.2 Griggs 289-303 Myers 730-738

Role Playing Affects Attitudes Zimbardo (1972) assigned the roles of guards and prisoners to random students and found that guards and prisoners developed role- appropriate attitudes. Originally published in the New Yorker Phillip G. Zimbardo, Inc.

Cognitive Dissonance

Social Influence The greatest contribution of social psychology is its study of attitudes, beliefs, decisions, and actions and the way they are molded by social influence. NON SEQUITER © 2000 Wiley. Dist. by Universal Press Syndicate Reprinted with Permission