| Chapter 12: Social Psychology Obedience: making a direct request to change behavior Milgram's experiment: more than half the participants inflicted 450Volts electric shocks Power of the situation is very strong Works partly because of diffusion of responsibility By-stander effect: in an emergency situation, the more people around, the less they help We're actively trying to make sense out of situations; we don't react reflexively to things. |
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