For this assignment, I will reflect on the following three articles, “The Study of Obedience” by Stanley Milgram ( ), “The Surprising Power of Neighborly Advice” by Daniel Gilbert ( ), and “Beyond the Banality of Evil: Three Different Dynamics of an Interactionist Social Psychology of Tyranny” by SA Haslam and S. Reicher ( ). I will first reflect on thoughts that were triggered in relation to my own personal life. Then, I will discuss how I see a particular article fitting into the field of Social Psychology. And finally, I will reflect on how I will integrate my new insight into my work as a developing psychologist.
The journal article that has inspired me to reflect on my personal life is “The Surprising Power of Neighborly Advice.” The article makes mentioned of how people tend to predict their future experiences in two different ways: mental simulations and surrogation. Mental simulation refers to the notion that people imagine future events inaccurately, whereas surrogation refers to the concept of people within the same network providing information about a future event that …show more content…
I plan to integrate the knowledge that I’ve gained by staying aware of the possibility that an individual in certain situations may find themselves willing to engage in acts of evil as a response to where they find themselves in that given moment. It is essential that as a developing psychologist that I explorer what it is the individual is responding to and how they may be reciprocating that behavior. I now find that it is also of great importance to assess the individual’s characteristics and to assess how those characteristics enabled the behavior choices of the
The journal article that has inspired me to reflect on my personal life is “The Surprising Power of Neighborly Advice.” The article makes mentioned of how people tend to predict their future experiences in two different ways: mental simulations and surrogation. Mental simulation refers to the notion that people imagine future events inaccurately, whereas surrogation refers to the concept of people within the same network providing information about a future event that …show more content…
I plan to integrate the knowledge that I’ve gained by staying aware of the possibility that an individual in certain situations may find themselves willing to engage in acts of evil as a response to where they find themselves in that given moment. It is essential that as a developing psychologist that I explorer what it is the individual is responding to and how they may be reciprocating that behavior. I now find that it is also of great importance to assess the individual’s characteristics and to assess how those characteristics enabled the behavior choices of the