Social psychologists

In the midst of an emerging field in Psychology during the 60’s, Stanley Milgram left his mark on Social Psychology. His fascination in understanding how obedience to authority can clash with innate human morals compelled him to begin a study to test the danger of these conflicting forces. This fascination sprouted from the genocide of millions of innocent men, women and children brought upon the Germans under the reign of Adolf Hitler during World War II. During the Nuremberg War Criminal…

One of the primary goals that social psychologists have always worked towards is understanding the process of social influence. More specifically, how one individual can influence the attitudes, behaviors, and thoughts of another individual. This goal has been continuously researched for many years, and multiple social psychologists have developed theories that explain how individuals motivate, influence, and alter other individuals’ behaviors, attitudes, and thoughts. Although numerous…

is now known today as the “bystander effect”. Phycologists now define the bystander effect as “a tendency for people not to get involved or not to offer help in a social situation” (Pam). This generally occurs in emergencies or situations where someone is in need of assistance. Instances of this phenomenon can be…

On the surface, social dominance theory paints a bleak picture of the nature of human social behavior. It takes as a given that inequality necessarily arises from society’s tendency to categorize people into their social groups and perpetuate hierarchies on which the power relations between these groups are founded. While other theories would explain intergroup biases and discriminatory behavior as a consequence of subjective misattribution, resource competition, or ingroup positive…

Organisations (HSOs), all of which function differently. Different organisations will have different aims, structures and environments will seek to transform clients through different technologies. Social workers within HSOs may come across different constraints and opportunities. For the purpose of this analysis, a social worker, Leah Hammett was interviewed. Leah is a Student Wellbeing Officer in the Student Equity and Wellbeing (SEW) unit at James Cook University in Cairns. I met with Leah in…

STUDENT ID: 1001231566 Directed Self Learning Milgram’s Obedience Experiment The Milgram’s Obedience experiment was one of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology. This was a series of experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University in 1963, 1964 and 1965. The purpose of this study was to measure the willingness of participants to obey an instruction from an authorized person who instructed them to perform acts if it involved harming another…

Solomon E. Asch’s (1955) experiment on conformity to social pressure puts perspective on how the views of a majority and/or experts can transform the opinion of an individual. Social influences shape every person and that is demonstrated in Asch’s study. The study could be the explanation for numerous social phenomenon’s such as “the spread of opinion to the following of crowds and the following of leaders” (Asch, 1955). His study focuses on the generalised idea that individuals will conform…

Community Social Work Teresa Smith Western New Mexico University Dual Relationships in Rural Community Social Work The Unique Reality of Rural Community Social Work Dual relationships are part of social work; they can happen in small rural communities as well as large metro areas. Even the most skill worker will have the issues of a dual relationship come up in their career. In this paper I will discuss worker and supervision challenges and benefits of dual relationships in rural social work.…

that there were different among individuals however, the question that many had wondered was the vital role that these relationships had played with individuals. American psychologist Harry Harlow, was a researcher best known for his experiments that was based on social isolation, dependency needs and other research based on social interaction. In order to accurately explain the reason why human beings seek these types of relationships, Harlow decided…

Solomon E. Asch, who is a social psychologist at Rutgers University, ran an experiment called Opinions and Social Pressure. Philip G. Zimbardo who is a professor of psychology at Stanford University, ran a study titled The Stanford Prison Experiment. Both of these experiments prove that by human nature, people are scared to go against the norm because they fear the feeling of being judged, different, and the mere idea of being alone. In Solomon E. Asch Opinions and Social Pressure, subjects…