Katz and Lazarsfeld explored how power can influence and impact one’s behavior. Elihu Katz and Paul Lazarsfeld connected to mass media to further develop the social influence theory in 1955. Carl Rogers theorized that his principles regarding Person-centered therapy could be applied in a variety of context and not just in the therapy situation. As a result, he started to use the term person-centered approach. (Rogers, 1959). Person-centered therapy (PCT) is the application of the person-centered…

Arthur Baldwin was a prominent author in the 1900s. He did not let his homosexuality or skin color put him down or get in the way of being himself. Baldwin wrote essays, novels, plays, and poetry inspired from his environment and relationships with other people. Although he was poor, it did not stop James Baldwin from becoming a successful author that wrote about his experiences of being homosexual and African American in a troubled society. In Baldwin’s early life, he had to work hard and support his…

Do Other People Influence You? As you get older you start to realize that you truly never stop learning new things. Something I recently had the pleasure of learning was that other people really do influence how we react in certain situations. There have been numerous amounts of studies done to show what actually makes someone do something different or change something about the way they normally would have done on their own. What seems to make this change is the influence of others. Whether people…

Williams & Bargh (2008) investigated a study examining how physical contact with warmth should activate feelings of interpersonal warmth. Their hypothesis was increasing interpersonal warmth warmth should influence behaviors and judgements towards other people based on Asch’s study with warm and cold personality traits, and Harlow’s study involving macaque monkey babies and their preference of fake mother. There were two studies that Williams & Bargh completed, where in their first study, they used…

Personality can influence one 's emotions in several ways. Traits such as being overly aggressive or timid can play a role in how a person copes with emotions. If we understand that “personality is the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual 's distinctive character, and emotions are a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one 's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others” then, with respect to Riley 's character, there are several strong influences that affect…

emotions and judgement of others leads to his dematerialization. The narrator’s father treats others very poorly and acts superior when compared to others in the story. To explain, the father states “They are born fools and they’ll die fools” (Carey 3). This quote is significant as the father goes against what he tells his son as people must show love to not be dematerialized. The father also works as a cartographer which would allow him to put into perspective how everyone must show love to others. The…

Culture Final Exam -Take Home 1. Isabel Wilkerson’s work, The Warmth of Other Suns, explores the search of Great Migration migrants for during the Great Migration of the 1900s. The 2007 documentary, Made in LA documents the demand for higher wages and better working conditions by Forever 21 sweatshop workers. In doing so, both works focus on individual people to tell their story about a larger issue. In telling the stories of people leaving their homes, families, and oppression for equality, freedom…

Pride can hinder people from taking other’s opinion into account. Sophocles wrote the play Oedipus The King to accentuate that pride can lead to smugness and prevent an individual from listening to others. Oedipus, the protagonist, takes pride in his wisdom due to solving a riddle to become a king. As a result, he embarks upon a journey to unmask the culprit behind King Laois’ murder to free his people from the plague. However, during the process, the prophet, Teiresias, warns him that it might bring…

Can people resist normative and informational social influence? Name: Emery Zhen Student ID: u5348471 Tutor’s Name: Sydney Kingstone Lab Time: Thursday 11-1pm Word Count: 2007 (include title page and references) Australian National University Can people resist to normative and informational social influence? There is a fundamental human need to belong to social groups especially if people were to live and work together, it is likely that they need to agree on common beliefs, values, attitudes…

researchers are studying how positive and negative responses to social exclusion can be interrupted when superhero fantasies come to mind. The researchers test the findings of previous research that say exclusion can trigger negative changes to people’s interpersonal perceptions and judgements. The main theory of the article is that if rejection triggers behavioral changes meant to protect against danger, then making one feel physically safe may weaken responses to being rejected (Huang, Ackerman, Bargh…