Elliot Aronson

Why we Should Share the Enjoyment of Billy Madison Benjamin Franklin once stated, “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” This quote says that if a person learns something useful in life, such as how to treat other people respectfully, it will certainly pay off when they become older. One of my reasons was that this movie was an excellent example of how not to act in in a classroom. Another was that it is an amusing and entertaining movie. And what I will be regarding last, it…

Transitions, influenced by interactions with others, enable a person to overcome obstacles that restrain them to transition. Billy Elliot, the film directed by Stephen Daldry, and Jennifer Niven’s novel Holding Up The Universe both explore transitions through defying social standards and acceptance. Billy Elliot explores transitions of Billy entering a world of ballet in the disapproving society of Durham during the Miners Strike. Holding Up The Universe explores the transition of Libby Strout,…

The process of transitioning into new phases of life is both challenging and rewarding for individuals and their communities, this can be seen in the film “Billy Elliot” directed by Stephen Daldry. He repeatedly uses filmic devices such as various camera angles and numerous tones of dialogue to display Billy’s radical transition into his new life. Just as Billy transitions to reach his goals Michaela DePrince overcomes many obstacles that can be seen in the New York Daily News Article titled…

A rising art form in popular culture today is none other than the American musical theatre. An array of factors have emerged and collided over the past decade to bring what was once a niche staple of American culture to the forefront of the media and culture around the world. The sum of an evolving variety of music genres within the form, an increased interest and engagement by A and B list celebrities, an increasingly globalized Western culture, among other influences have allowed for the…

Book Review: Nobody Left to Hate Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion After Columbine, is a book written by social psychologist, Elliot Aronson. Within the book, Aronson addresses issues such: as bullying, taunting, humiliation, and exclusion in the atmosphere of school classrooms-which are said to play major roles in triggering the pathological behavior of the shooters. I always had an interest in the understanding of mass shootings specifically, the Columbine incident, which inspired my…

B.F. Skinner, an American psychologist, first became well known in the world of psychology in the late 1930s, when he created the new phase “operate conditioning”. Operate conditioning, positive and negative reinforcement would soon be what he become famous for in the late 1940s. According to McLeod (2015), Skinner’s idea for operate conditioning came from studies done by Thorndike were he made his theory the “Law of Effect. Reinforcement is the main difference between Skinner’s and Thorndike’s…

of self-persuasion. (Aronson, E. 2003). With an indirect approach the target doesn’t feel attacked with arguments and have the option of resistance as a defense. With dissonance Aronson believes that the target persuade himself by justifying an action or a statement made under conditions of limited justification. In the end the target will believe in the self-justification made. Three years after Leon Festingers book: A theory of cognitive dissonance was published, Aronson was looking to…

Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson’s book Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) they claim that we can defeat the demon of self-justification by understanding how it works. “When politicians’ backs are against the wall, they will reluctantly acknowledge error but not their responsibility for it” (Tavris/Aronson 4). How many of us use self-justification in relationships, jobs and purchases we make? We stay in unhealthy relationships, dead-end jobs, and buy items we don’t need. Tavris and Aronson…

People are so attached to the media and television that they become so easy to convince that everything they see on TV or on social media believe is real or the truth. In the article, “Pictures in Our Heads” the authors, Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson discuss how they believe the mass media have brainwashed the people and painted an imaginary world in their heads (158). They suspected that the media has mislead viewers and made them believe everything they see on television is real and…

Sarah Edwards October 12, 2015 Social Psychology 2319-86021 Persuasion in Advertisement The first thing that comes to my mind when looking at this picture is that the child was just walking home from school and would never expect he would be getting hit by a car on his way home. This public service announcement says a lot in just one picture, but ultimately it is making aware that you should always pay attention to the road and your surroundings. There are many persuasion methods that…