How Is 12 Angry Men Related To Social Psychology

I watched the 1957 version of Twelve Angry Men. 12 Angry Men is a movie that involves a murder case. A young male is on trial for the murder of his father. The young male life is confirmed by twelve jurors. The jurors joined the court room and listened to both sides of the case. They were then locked in a jury room to decide if he was guilty or not. The film highlights a host of social psychological processes. I will focus on three of them: social influence, stereotype and aggression. The first social psychologist process exhibited in the movie was social influence. This is defined as when a person’s emotion, opinion, or behaviors are affected by others. I noticed this concept in the scene where the 12 jurors were put in a jury room. This scene is an example of social influence because juror 8 was the only one who preliminary voted by raising his hand for not guilty and that took a toll on the other 11 jurors that voted guilty. They disagreed with juror 8 point of view of him wanting to talk about the case. …show more content…
Several of them was hesitate on raising their hand at the beginning but followed the rest of voting guilty with no reasoning. They wanted juror 8 to agree with the decision so the trial can be an easy one and the defendant could get sentenced to the death penalty. “Oh boy it’s always one” “What is there to talk about” “how come you voted not guilty” was stated by different jurors after the disagreement. Juror 10 stated to juror 8 “we don’t owe him a thing, he got a fair trial, what do you think that trial cost? He is lucky he got