One social psychological explanation of aggression is deindividuation. Deindividuation is a process whereby people lose their sense of socialised, often antisocial behaviours (Hogg and Vaughan, 2008). Deindividuation also refers to the process of decreased self-assessment and awareness in situations where identification of an individual is difficult if not impossible. For example, at a football match or at a festival, these are situations where individual identity is restricted and normal standards of behaviour occur. People normally refrain from acting in an aggressive and antisocial manner, in part because they are easily identifiable and in part because they belong to societies that have strong norms against such uncivilised behaviour.
He calls self-esteem, "the sociometer model." Poor interaction symptoms result from a person’s fear of societal rejection. According to Leary, increasing the person’s sense of belonging to a social group solves the problem. The group need not regard the person highly, they must simply include the person. Once this occurs, the patient’s symptoms begin to disappear and his self-esteem
Outline and evaluate group display in humans Group display refers to the display of aggressive behaviour by groups, which are sometimes described as three or more people gathered together for a common purpose. In this context, psychologists are looking at groups gathered together for an aggressive purpose, or groups that develop an aggressive purpose. However, groups gather for many purposes, both positive and negative. Because individuals are capable of violence, we can argue that it must be in our nature. However, uncontrolled violence is not the best strategy in a community because the costs are too high e.g.
According to his book The Crowd: A study of the popular mind (1985) being in a crowd offers anonymity on an individual and therefore personal level. Social inhibitions are decreased, especially when suggestibility and contagion are combined1. Deindividuation occurs when an individual feels that he can behave outside social norm, e.g. acting violently, or commit a crime when thinking that responsibilities are not completely on him or in the hope of not getting caught. According to Le Bon, it is when an individual feels deindividuated, that it enables him to behave in an antisocial manner despite not acting this way in more normal situations.
Individuals have the most negative category-based responses to the groups that they do not personally belong (outgroups) and usually have more positive views on one’s own group (ingroup). Stereotyping involves attaching to a person, one’s cognitive expectancies and associations regarding the group. They are basically beliefs about the characteristics of group members and theories about why those qualities go together. They are set ideas that go together with a category, acting to justify our affective and behavioral reactions to the category. The reason I’m discussing category-based responses, beliefs regarding characteristics of group members, and set ideas is because they all influence our tendency to stereotype.
Once a label is given to an individual they become part of all the generalizations that go with that label (Siegel). For example, someone who has been convicted of a crime might be seen as someone who has no respect for the law. These labels also present a self-fulfilling prophecy. Being identified as a deviant, a person is usually ostracized from conventional social groups, and therefore is forced to become part of less desirable ones (Fitch). Being a member of less desirable social groups will only reinforce that they are a deviant, and increase their chances of engaging in deviant behaviors (O’Conner).
This is a term/topic, which was developed by a social psychologist name Irving Janis. Groupthink is actually a process, which should be very avoided by jurors. It makes people in a group come to a decision, which is not the right one. The reason is because they are trying to move fast and “get it over with quick”. People in groups that have this problem are often afraid of getting into a fight with someone or a debate, so they rely on the easy route and agree with whomever.
People can also commit evil deeds when they lose their sense of individuality from being in large groups or crowds. They begin to feel anonymous in these crowds and feel like they will not be held responsible for their own actions; even if they are cruel and evil Wade, C., Tavris, C., & Garry, M. (2014) (p. 276). We can also look at stereotyping and see how it causes people to commit cruel acts based on
Groups have a powerful effect on the behavior of their members through norms. We are more likely to be influenced by the norms of groups that we strongly identify with or a group that is important to our self-concept (Jetten, Spears & Manstead, 1997; Moreland and Levine, 2001). Social norms cause people to change their attitudes or behavior to conform and adhere to the norm (Baron, Branscombe & Byrne, 2008). When people violate social norms the consequences can range from disapproval of others in the group to being kicked out of that group because not following social norms makes people’s behavior unpredictable which can be potentially dangerous to the group or society (Baron, Branscombe & Byrne, 2008). Social norms are constantly changing and for the most part people follow them or only break ones that don’t threaten the entire group.
Nonetheless, the technological advances also caused so unpleasant effects. There are many people who do not good at self-control will spend most of time in games and other things else, which is really bad to their eyes. This is a one of important reason why more and more people get nearsightedness. Moreover, pollution is another big effects of improvement of technology, for instance, pollution of automobile exhaust fumes, and noise of transport vehicle. These kinds of adverse effects are causing varieties bad contact ripple for which people are becoming idle, and it facilitated more people to have lower level of health.