1. 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

2. Today’s Discussion Questions
Make sure your name is on the questions you submit, and that your question is unique.
This will be factored into your grade.

3. 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
Myers

4. 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.

5. Cognitive Dissonance

6. 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.
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Press Syndicate Reprinted with Permission