Question: To prepare: • Review Chapters 8 and Chapter 9 of your course text, Social Psychology, focusing on the factors that are associated with social influence on behavior.
• Think about examples in the news in which people did or did not demonstrate conformity or obedience. Note: One way to find examples of news events for these concepts is to go to a major search engine (Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.), click on the "news" tab, and type in appropriate search terms.
Post a brief description of a contemporary example from the news in which people did or did not demonstrate conformity or obedience. Use a theory discussed in Chapter 8 to explain how or why the behavior illustrates conformity or obedience. Use information from Chapter 9 to explain how being in a group might influence behaviors in your example. That is, in your example, how might group processes, characteristics, or functions explain behavior?
Notes: • Identify your example in the subject line of your post.
• Please do NOT select the Holocaust or Milgram's studies as your example.