1. Happy Tuesday!
You need a ½ sheet of paper, your notes from the reading and a pencil out for your pop quiz 

2. Today: Conformity and Obedience
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3. Automatic Mimicry
Chameleon effect Mood linkage +: help us empathize, foster fondness -: In the 8 days following Columbine, every US state except Vermont experienced threats of copycat violence

4. Solomon Asch Conformity
Adjusting behavior or thinking to coincide with the group standard
Solomon Asch

5. EXPERIMENT #1- SOLOMON ASCH

6. When do we conform? Feel incompetent/insecure
Group of at least 3 people
Everyone else agrees
Admire group
Know behavior is being observed
Part of culture that encourages respect for social standards

7. Social Influence
Normative Social Influence- influencing resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval (sensitive to social norms) Informational social influence- influencing resulting from one’s willingness to accept others’ opinions about reality

8. Obedience Stanley Milgram 60-65% obey Today- 80%
Females just as likely
Obedience highest when…
Person giving orders was close and perceived to be authority figure
Authority figure supported by prestigious institution
Victim was depersonalized or at a distance
No role models for defiance

9. EXPERIMENT #2- STANLEY MILGRAM

10. EXPERIMENT #3- PHILIP ZIMBARDO

11. Reading!

12. In groups of four you will create a movie poster AND a movie trailer film based on one of the social psychology experiment listed below:
Stereotypes: Why we act without thinking
The Halo Effect: When your mind is a mystery
How and why we lie to ourselves: Cognitive Dissonance
Our Dark Hearts: The Stanford Prison Experiment
Stanley Milgram: Obedience to authority or just conformity?
Why we all stink as intuitive psychologists: The false consensus effect
Social Identity Theory: Why groups and prejudices form so easily
Bystander Apathy: Why we don’t help others
Conforming to the Norm: I can’t believe my eyes
The Chameleon Effect
How Other People’s Unspoken Expectations Control Us
When Situations Not Personality Dictate Our Behavior
Stereotypes: Why We Act Without Thinking
Poster AND movie trailer must include: Additionally, the movie trailer must include:
Creative Title Overview of the plot
Tagline Performance from all group members
Characters (Psychologist) Ideally, some special effects 😊
Actors/Actress who will play these characters
3 “reviews”
Picture(s)