The Social Psychology: The Chameleon Effect

This source was written by Madelijn Strick, Rob W. Holland, Rick Van Baaren, and Ad Van Knippenberg. Madelijn Strick is a psychologist at Utrecht University and has a PhD in social psychology. She works at Radboud University teaching social influences and consumer behavior. Her main interest is in human emotions and decision making. She was awarded “best dissertation award” of the Dutch Association of Social Psychology. She and along with the other authors are trying to figure out how people make personal decisions. This shows her credibility for writing this article. Rob W. Holland also has a PhD from Radboud University and is a professor in Nijmegen. He was also awarded the “best dissertation award” for his research on the influence of attitudes and behaviors as a function of motivational orientation.

That video seemed to build credibility at the beginning through the news room background but lost the credibility, in my eyes, through the offensive language used by multiple people in the video. Also the credibility was lost when the “news anchor” did not seem too interested in talking about the topic by saying things like “a desperate attempt”. Also one of the “witnesses” says “I’m an older man, so you can trust what I say”, to try to build his personal credibility. There is also a expert mentioned to assist the speaker to help persuade his audience while making his point. Personally, I did not find any pathos in the video, but did spot some logos. There were a couple of graphs shown, which shows a sign of fact in the video, but they didn’t help the speaker and his point because his credibility was destroyed by the language

I couldn’t believe that someone was taking advantage of the autistic child’s inability to disclose their abuse. I couldn’t understand how the children knew the specific words used to describe their abuse, there’s only so much they could’ve learned from watching TV. The double blind experiment results left me dumbfounded. I thought that the facilitator might have had some influence in helping the autistic person type, but I never would’ve guessed that it was all the facilitator. I guess I wanted to believe just like others in the video.

Social scientists believe that gender differences are not caused by biological differences; rather, they are a product of socialization, prejudice, discrimination, and other forms of social control (Bem, 1993). Which of the following two faiths were used in this chapter as examples of gender regulation?

The movie, The Butler (2013), by Lee Daniels, proves a vivid image of how an African American family (the Gaines) handle and identify with the historical struggles of the civil rights movements. The main characters are Cecil Gaines, Louis Gaines, and Charlie Gaines and all three men were victims of violence, unequal rights, and limit resources. Cecil is the father of the family who tries to provide better opportunities for his family by being a servant (house nigger) to a butler at the White House. He was a butler for eight presidential administrations and became blind to the harsh reality of segregation. Louis Gaines was the eldest son who decide to attend the Fisk University to be civil rights activist

Where the Wilds Things Are is a 2009 fantasy film directed by Spike Jonze, it is adapted from Maurice Sendak’s children book of the same name wrote in 1963. Max, the main character of 9 years old, retreats from the frustration of his life into fantasy, and so do we all. The movie works with the part of the human subconscious.

In life people will come in contact with others, who are from a different background, culture, lifestyle or ethnicity as them, yet still every individual is equal, they’re all humans. As humans, people have the tendency to have their own unique perspectives on the world around them and everything it encounters. Psychologist Gordon Allport (1985), one of the founding fathers of personality psychology, defined social psychology as a discipline in which scientific methods are used in order “to understand and explain how the thought, feeling, and behavior of individuals are influenced by actual, imagined, or implied presence of other human beings” (Cherry).Social psychology involves

The Breakfast Club is a comedy drama movie released in 1985.It was written, produced and directed by John Hughes. It is about five high school teenage students each a member of a different high school group ; Bender the criminal, Brian the brain, Claire the princess, Andrew the athlete, and Allison the basket case must put away their differences to leave their punishing detention by their strict principal. While in detention, their principal instructs them not to speak, move from their seats or sleep for the next eight hours and 54 minutes. He assigns them to write a 1000 word essay that describes who they really think they are, however they spend hours talking, arguing, and at one point , smoking marijuana. Throughout the detention, the characters encounter constant struggles of being understood, by their principle and

This essay aims to explore and describe some of the key studies within Social Psychology and show why social psychology is still important within the science of psychology today. Social psychology was once described by Allport (as cited in Lindzey & Aronson, 1985, p.5) as, “the scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others”. One of the first psychologists to study social psychology was Kurt Lewin. Lewin is considered the “father of social psychology” by many as he took a stand against the dominant behaviourist approach during the 1920’s through his belief that interaction between the individual and their environment is key to affecting behaviour, rather than environment alone. His revolutionary ideas matured into the study of group dynamics, which is widely used by many organisations today (Collin, 2012).

The social cognitive theory is the belief that someone behavior, knowledge, and actions, can be directly related to his environment. This theory is predicting that if someone’s best friend, father, or acquaintance smoke and drink, more likely this person will drink and smoke. Coreil, (2010) defines theory as “a set of interrelated concepts, constructs, and propositions that present a systematic view of a domain of study for the purpose of explaining and predicting phenomena” (p.90). With that said, your statement about reducing the number of social gatherings that serve alcoholic beverages or simply stay away from these gatherings, could be a start to recovery.

I believe reexperiencing is the most difficult of the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms because of the danger the client may place himself or herself in. PTSD is a reaction to the recounting of a past negative event (Weiner & Cash, 2006). Often the client may flashback to a traumatic experience and reacts as though the event is actually happening. “A flashback is an actual memory that comes back into consciousness, as a sight, smell, sound, or a complete seen” (Weiner & Cash, 2006, p. 40). With flashbacks the individual may experience hallucinations, illusions, stress, and feel threatened. The client may also react by becoming aggressive and may assault others. I believe this is dangerous to themselves and others. In my opinion, reexperiencing can be tragic, when someone places themselves and others in danger. According to Weiner & Cash, “they may become aggressive and assaultive in order to protect themselves from the reexperience of threat” (Weiner & Cash, 2006, p. 39).

This criterion, in diagnosing some disorders, is setting a much lower standard for patient to meet the diagnostic criteria. For example, the duration required for diagnosis for delusion and hallucination symptom is much shorter than in the DSM-5. This results in more potential patient qualifying for mental disorder diagnosis but not enough medical recourse to meet the need for treating those patients in China specifically.

I’ve had my moments questioning my existence; do I not exist as anything more than

In social psychology, social influence is a process where someone’s beliefs, thoughts and behaviour change by being exposed to beliefs, thoughts and opinions of others. It manifests in several forms, such as obedience, compliance and conformity. All these types of social influence have been studied by numerous researchers who investigated the reasons why people conform to social norms and obey to authorities, such as Milgram’s classic studies on obedience. His experiments support the popular idea of ‘banality of evil’ –Hannah Arendt (1963)’s famous phrase referring to the capability to accomplish dreadful things out of banal reasons–, revealing that people conform submissively and thoughtlessly to the orders that authorities deliver, no

Labeling theory is when someone is being identified by their personal appearance. As a person we tend to judge others by their looks; black, white, Hispanic. We may call these same people thieves, drug dealers, or even rapists. We are judging these people by the way they dress, walk, talk, or act. We are not doing it because we are awful people though, it is natural, but not to the extent of making these people criminals. This can also be considered stereotyping. Law enforcement agencies will continue to use the term labeling theory instead.