Assignment 1: applying social psychology theories to explain behavior

  In Week 2, you had been launched to the bystander impact (Darley & Latané, 1968). The perceived diffusion of duty makes bystanders much less more likely to intervene in an emergency scenario. It is perhaps tempting to imagine that aggressors and the bystanders who do nothing to intervene are simply “dangerous” individuals; nevertheless, the explanations for a way and why these behaviors happen are way more advanced. On this project, you’ll take into account how elements akin to obedience to authority, perceived energy, and subtle duty within the presence of others might clarify assorted responses to potential or precise hurt to others.  

• Replicate on the next social media situation: You’re studying posts in your favourite social media website, whenever you come throughout a submit by a 19-year-old male. He writes that he was raped at a celebration final night time and he’s afraid they are going to submit footage of it on-line. He’s considering suicide. You discover three varieties of behaviors within the feedback to him:

1. A small group of people are utilizing profanity and belittling him. They’re encouraging him to commit suicide.
2.  A bigger group of people are making supportive feedback and offering the quantity for a disaster assist line.
3. Lots of his on-line followers haven’t responded to his submit.

• Take into consideration how social psychology theories or rules could possibly be utilized to elucidate the varieties of feedback made to the 19-year-old within the situation.

By Day 7

Submit a 2 web page paper that addresses the next:

• Describe the affect of social context on conformity, obedience, and serving to behaviors.
• Clarify how social psychology theories or rules could possibly be utilized to account for every of the responses within the situation (e.g., which rules/theories may clarify response kind A; which rules/theories may clarify response kind B, and so forth). Make sure you help your assertions with scholarly content material.
• Present no less than one suggestion to assist cut back the derogatory feedback or enhance the variety of supportive feedback within the situation, primarily based on what you’ve discovered about social psychology.