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Group Influence
Lecture 7
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What Is a Group?
• Group– Two or more people
– Interact with and influence each other
– Perceive one another as “us”
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Social Facilitation
• The presence of others• Crowding: The
presence of many others
• Why are we aroused in the presence of others?
• Evaluation apprehension
• Driven by distraction• Mere/simple presence
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Social Facilitation
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Social Loafing
• Social loafing is the phenomenon of people exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work
• Many hands make light work• Social loafing in everyday life
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Social Facilitation or Social Loafing?
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Deindividuation
• Doing together what we would not do alone– Group size
– Physical anonymity
– Arousing and distracting activities
• Diminished self-awareness
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Deindividuation
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Group Polarization
• The case of the “risky shift”
• Do groups intensify opinions?– Group polarization experiments– Group polarization in everyday life
• Explaining polarization– Informational influence– Normative influence
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Group Polarization
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Groupthink
• Symptoms of groupthink
• Critiquing the concept of groupthink
• Preventing groupthink• Group problem
solving
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Groupthink
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Minority Influence
• Consistency
• Self-confidence
• Defections from the majority
• Is leadership minority influence?– Task leadership– Social leadership– Transformational leadership
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Supplemental Slides
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Transformational Leaders
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Transformational Leaders