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1 ETHICAL ISSUES IN PSYCHOLOGY Dr Fenja Ziegler Lecture 4 | Social Psychology | C80FIP 1 Tired of looking at the stars, Professor Miller takes up social psychology

2 The Bystander Effect Lecture 4 | Social Psychology | C80FIP 2  Put volunteers in a situation where someone is in distress and needs help  Number of factors influence whether people help  How would you feel if you didn’t help?  Is it ethical to put you into this situation?

3 Landis’ Facial Expressions (1924) Lecture 4 | Social Psychology | C80FIP 3  Are facial expressions universal (e.g. shock, disgust)?  Paint people’s faces with lines and make them do stuff:  Smell ammonia  Watch porn  Hand in bucket of frogs  Decapitate rat (2/3 complied eventually). 1/3 Landis did himself  Nothing universal (but note obedience)

4 Monster Bully (1939) Lecture 4 | Social Psychology | C80FIP 4  Do children stutter innately, or do we make them stutter?  Take some orphaned children and split into two groups:  Criticise every mistake  Praise for speech  Effects on children?  Loss of self-worth  Enduring speech problems


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