Deindividuation

Question 1

Cloak of anonymity

Answer 1

Diminished personal consequences for their action

Question 2

Reduced private self awareness

Answer 2

Pay less attention to our own feelings and behaviour when we are in a crowd

Question 3

Reduced public self awareness

Answer 3

Care less about what others think about us

Question 4

Zimbardo

Answer 4

Groups of 4 female under grads told to give electric shocks to another a student

Deindividuated p - wore hoods that covered their faces
Identifiable ps - normal clothes with name tags
Found that deindivuated ps inflicted more shocks

Question 5

Strengths

Answer 5

McCarthy
Looked at aggression in online chat rooms and uses of instances
Found a strong correlation between anonymity and flaming
Link between deindivuatuon and aggression

Anthropological -Watson
Collected data in warriors in 23 societies and where her they changed their appearance before going to war
Warriors who changed their opinions were more destructive in killing
Anonymity - aggression

Johnson and downing
Female ps give shocks
1. Ps drsssed in kkk outfits with mask
2.dressed as nurses
3.own clothes (control)
Kkk ps have more shocks in comparisons to control group

Real world application
- 21 instances of suicide leaps and found that in 10/21 where a crowd was baring it had occurred at night in a loud crowd
Deindividuation

Question 6

Strength

Answer 6

BIG ZIMMY