Try to introduce some social psychology concepts to understand the step-by-step changes in collective behavior

Sophie 2021-12-16 08:01:05

The wave has given ordinary people living in the depressive emptiness of defects new excitement and reliance on the mentally weak individuals with reborn strength, but it has made the people involved in it become increasingly crazy. Some of them are satisfied in the name of collectivism. The various selfish desires in the subconscious slowly lose their moral judgment and the courage to resist. This collective finally opposes all those who oppose them extremely and excludes these people from the collective and even hurts them...

How did the good original intention wrongly evolve into incompetence? The end of salvation?
How powerful and terrifying is the collective power of individuals in certain situations?
Is the development in these five days sensational or is it a model and epitome of real scientific experiments? Is it really possible?


Today, watching this film in the end want to watch and which aspects of a problem it
after reading that a lot of what human nature is inevitable --- While we should not think rationally to do so, such as
on the third day because I felt Carlo Wearing a white shirt doesn’t look good and chooses to wear a red T-shirt. After entering the class, when Reiner asked the students to name the activity group, Carlo actively raised his hand, but Reiner punished her with his eyes and finally called her to her intentionally or unintentionally. the class a penalty or implied rejection of
such activities in the fifth day of self-esteem greatly satisfied Reiner as his wife in terms of qualifications higher than his revenge on his wife say the work is not strong wife's weakness hurt by the strong self-esteem It was the same day that Marco had quarreled with Carlo for similar reasons and actually slapped Carlo on the same day when he left home. It is


often said that the movie is a dramatic reaction to life, but many details of this movie are very real and there is almost no redundancy. Na felt uncomfortable with the German flag everywhere during the World Cup. I also saw in Long Yingtai's letter to his eldest son who grew up in Germany. I saw almost exactly the same real thinking of German youths. It can be said that this movie convinces. The sexual situation is very strong and it is because of this that it is shocking. Of course, if you read the following analysis, you may be more depressed and emotional,
and I never think that this is only for Germans with special historical backgrounds, but should be worthy of every nation and country. People think



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Just watched the other day The Social Psychology of David G. Myers (8th edition) The following are basically some sorted out from the book to help us better understand the details and phenomena in this movie. There is no detailed analysis one by one, but the list is listed below. Every concept can be matched with the specific movie plot.

Herd

refers to the change of behavior or belief based on others.
As a member of the crowd, when you stand up and cheer for a beautiful goal that won the game, are you following the crowd? When you and everyone else think that women with long hair look better than short hair, are you? Following the crowd? Maybe it is, maybe not. The key is whether your behaviors and beliefs remain the same when you leave the group. If you were the only fan on the court, would you stand up and cheer?
One of the manifestations of conformity is obedience, which means that sometimes we will comply with an expectation or requirement, but we do not really believe in what we are doing. We sometimes wear a dress and tie, even though we don't like it. This conformity behavior shown by external forces is called obedience. The main reason why we obey is to get rewards or avoid punishment. If our behavior of obedience is caused by a clear command, then we call it obedience.
Sometimes we really believe in what the group asks us to do. We will drink milk with thousands of people because we think milk is nutritious. This kind of sincere and inner conformity behavior is called acceptance. Sometimes acceptance follows obedience, and obedience breeds acceptance.


Threshold phenomenon

Implementation shows that if you want others to do you a big favor, an effective strategy is to ask them to do a small favor first. This threshold phenomenon has proven to be very effective. Researchers pretending to be volunteers for safe driving, they asked Californians to place huge, rough-printed "safe driving" signs in front of the yard. Only 17% agreed. Then the researcher asked other people to do a little favor: Can they put a 3-inch "be a safe driver" sign in the window? Almost everyone readily agreed. Two weeks later, 76% of people agreed to put up a big and ugly publicity sign in front of their yard.
Patricia and her collaborators found that 46% of residents in the suburbs of Toronto would be willing to donate to cancer groups when in direct contact. And if they were asked to wear a lapel pin to promote the event a day ago (and they were willing to do so), the number of fundraisers might be twice as many as the former.
In these experiments that showed the phenomenon of climbing the threshold, people's initial submissive behavior---wearing a lapel pin, etc., was voluntary. Researchers continue to find that when people commit to public behavior and believe that these behaviors are consciously done, they become more convinced of what they are doing.


The stronger the cohesion of a group, the greater the influence it has on its members.

In a racial group, people will feel a common "herd pressure to belong to the group"-speech, action, and dress should all resemble "we". Blacks who "act like whites" or whites who "act like blacks" are ridiculed by their peers. In the experiment, people also found that those members who felt they were attracted to the group were more likely to react to the influence of the group. They don't like to go against the tune with other members. Fear of being rejected by people they like, they allow certain members of the group to have certain powers, especially those who can represent the characteristics of the group.

It is hard to be a minority member of a certain group. If you can find someone who agrees with you, it will be much easier for you to stand up for something.


Persuasive factor

communicator:
a charismatic leader who can attract and direct members.
information:
Vivid and emotional information and the warmth and tolerance that a group brings to those who are lonely and melancholy are all attractive.
Audience: The
students are very young. Due to the relatively open-minded period, their attitudes and values ​​are still unstable. Some people may be at a turning point in their lives looking for their direction in life, or facing a personal crisis, they have a certain need, and the activity just gave them an answer.

De-individualized

group situations may cause people to lose self-awareness, and cause individuals to lose themselves and self-discipline. Social facilitating experiments show that groups can trigger arousal in people. The social slack experiment shows that groups can spread responsibility. Once arousal and the spread of responsibility are combined, conventional constraints will become smaller, and the consequences may be shocking. From slight gaffes (throwing food in large restaurants, yelling at referees, screaming at rock concerts) to impulsive self-satisfaction (clustering vandalism, binge drinking, and stealing), people can do it. What environment will trigger this de-individualized state of mind?
The size of the group obscures individual identities. Mullen pointed out that the larger the size of the thug gang, the more likely the members to lose their sense of self. In examples ranging from sports spectators to lynching thugs, many individual evaluations are estimated to have fallen to the lowest level. Because "everyone behaves like this". Therefore, all people attribute the responsibility for their actions to the situation rather than their own choices.

Physical anonymity

such as the effect of wearing a uniform. In order to prepare for battle, some fighters in the tribe will use oil paint or masks to dress up their bodies and faces to personalize themselves. After the battle is over, some tribes will kill, torture, or destroy any surviving prisoners of war; other tribes will let prisoners of war or war. After carefully studying some anthropological archives, Watson discovered that those tribes of de-personalized fighters would almost always inflict brutality on their enemies. The uniformed Los Angeles police officers who beat Rodney King were angered and aroused by his rebellious refusal to stop. They enjoy the friendship between them and ignore how the outside world will see them. In this way, they forget the conventions of society and become involved in the situation.



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At the same time reminds me of the movie Changeling
when the authoritarian government monopoly when the police and the news media are essentially independent radio supporters to save the mother
the authorities or the majority of people do not like dissenting voices can be as long as the authorities is a living representative of the interests of certain people will make mistakes in terms of long-term and all the people who we need an independent voice sound even criticism so as to maintain a distance from the first expansion of vanity and arrogance of the seven deadly sins stay awake





exactly how Avoid the occurrence of dictatorship?

Avoid the illusion of consensus in the collective.
Strengthen self-awareness and avoid de-individualization.
Encourage critical evaluation and keep the group open to opposition.



But how to do it? Not easy

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The Wave quotes

  • Rainer Wenger: You should just see how motivated they are.

  • Tim Stoltefuss: Run for your life, or I'll blow your brains out.