Social psychology

What is job stress? According to NIOSH, job stress creates a set of physical and psychological responses that occur when the requirements of the job and don’t match the capabilities, resources or needs of the employee. Job stress can lead to poor health and even injury. However, for many Americans, job stress is a normal part of everyday life. When a person is under stress, the body gets into its biological fight or flight response. This leads to a response of stressful conditions and is…

purposeful affiliations. Her apartment was also modelled like the psychiatric unit she was warded in, maintaining the “high-structure, low-stress” model, allowing her to function well. On top of these, I think that psychosocial treatments such as social skills training and family intervention should also be implemented so that the family is able to develop a more positive form of interaction to positively change the family affect, in turn lowering levels of anxiety that triggers…

bystander effect gives three reasons in which this can happen: it discourages victim blaming, it can change social norms, and it shifts responsibilities to men and women. Victim blaming occurs when a victim of a sexual assault is basically told that it is their fault that they were assaulted. The article says that, instead of blaming the victim, the community should take responsibility. By changing social norms societal responsibility is growing. Therefore, sexual assaults will happen less.…

never attempted to escape, the inmates always did what they were told to do, they learned from watching Luke get in trouble. Consider the Milgram experiment in relation to Cool Hand Luke and the inmates. The Milgram experiment was a series of social psychology experiments where you would measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure. The authority figure would instruct them to perform acts that they didn’t want to do due to their conscience. The subjects would read…

fixed and over-generalized beliefs about particular groups or classes of people have weaved its way into the subconscious minds of humanity. The various influences affecting our social cognition have substantial impact on our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner ("Stereotypes | Simply Psychology"). These generalized beliefs, or stereotypes, are typically meant for the purpose of interacting with others and understanding different groups of people; whether it relates to…

Flies in a nutshell - A plane full of boys crash on an island with no adult supervision in sight - what is thought to be a great time, many things went wrong in various social situations with the boys. Social psychological phenomena are instances of human behavior presented in a social context - with other human beings. Two social psychological phenomena demonstrated in the boy’s behavior in Lord of the Flies are realistic conflict theory and bystander effect, which shows how people are innately…

The important factors that allow schools to intervene are the abilities of identifying bullying as it happens or has happened. Past developmental and educational psychology research throughout the nineties has allowed a myriad of methods for schools to recognise bullying as it occurs, which then enables professionals to intervene to stop the antisocial or aggressive behaviour. Schools have adopted the Olweus Bully…

Milgram’s experiment on obedience to authority is one of the best known studies in social psychology. It was repeated several times in different variations. These replications extended our knowledge about the phenomenon of complying to authorities’ orders. One of them was the experiment conducted by Hofling et al. This essay will outline the similarities and differences between these two studies. Firstly, in their aims, results and conclusions. Secondly, their methodological and ethical aspects.…

Asch, a social psychologist at Rutgers University, describes an experiment which studied the effects of peer pressure. In this experiment, eight subjects and an experimenter are in a room together. All but one subject has been told by the experimenter to answer…

about something, or the behaviour linked to it. We develop attitudes towards anything we can interact with, ranging from people or social groups, animals, objects, situations or specific behaviors. Defined by Allport as a key concept in social psychology (1935, p.798), attitudes help us deal with everything around us and, ultimately, define us as individuals and social group members. This essay will cover how attitudes can be and have been defined in time, how they are structured and in what…