Social Psychology by Robbie Sutton

Author:Robbie Sutton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK

Questions

1. Thinking about the methods of manipulating deindividuation you have been reading about, what else do you think researchers may be manipulating? Specifically, how do the researchers interfere with communication between people? Does this represent a confound, and what does it mean for the evidence cited in favour of the concept of deindividuation?

2. What do you think the SIDE model would have to say about the idea that road rage emerges because of the deindividuating aspects of the driving situation? According to this model, when might driver aggression increase, and when might it decrease, in response to the anonymous conditions of driving?

3. According to Halpern (1998), a good critical thinking skill is to think of two improvements that could be made to an experiment (see Chapter 15). Based on the description of the study by Ellison-Potter et al. (2001), what improvements do you think you could make? (Note: if you would like further information, look up this article in the References section of this book, and see if your institution’s library holds the journal in which it was published.)

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