The In Crowd

of new cultural standards. For example, a woman showing her ankles in medieval times would be considered taboo unlike today. However, regardless of the time, the speed of scandals entering the public eye is the same from the age of “A Face in the Crowd” as the modern days. A striking difference between times past and contemporary days is the emergence of social media and its effect of accelerating the recovery time for the public. This is clearly evident in the Romney and Trump scandals, which…

Groupthink in Social Media Katrina Venta PSY 102 Professor Stommel April 21, 2016 Groupthink in Social Media Today in the United States — or anywhere in the world for that matter, there is great pressure on the need to be perceived a certain way by society. We live in a digital era and a generation of technological advancements — where our private lives aren’t so private anymore, and the need for approval is eating away our self-confidence and identity. We tweak things about…

You vs. the Crowd What makes a brand worthy? Good question. Having to sit down and think of a brand that I define as great would have probably been a challenging task about five years ago, but today it seems pretty evident. It is the brand, that I think about eighty percent of the time when I consider buying a new product. How has it been able to get so ingrained in my system? I do not remember the first time I purchased something off of Amazon, so I guess you can say I have been acquainted with…

A face in the crowd was a movie put out in 1957 where a man known as Lonesome Rhodes is found in a southern jail and by a radio reporter named Marcia Jeffries. Jefferies reports from the local jail sometime to here the stories of people in the jail and see If they have any unknown talents. She was quickly impressed by lonesome’s guitar skills and his huge personality so after his four-day jail stretch she hunts him down and makes him a offer to be on her uncles radio station were he quickly…

Georgia Tech Moneythink is a local chapter of the national organization Moneythink. Moneythink is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to restore economic health in the United States using financial and career education by training interested and motivated college volunteers to serve as mentors and role models to low and middle income high school students. The program is a 21 week program that focuses on giving high school students the decision making power and knowledge to take on…

“There is no psychology of groups, which is not essentially and entirely a psychology of individuals” 1 –Allport, 1924. The opening statement describes Allport’s argument that; all group psychology can be explained by focusing on the psychology of individuals. In other words, he argues that the group psychology is a false label of individual psychology. Conformity is a part of group psychology that can be broken down into smaller parts, each with their own supporting evidence as separate…

As social psychological theories are meant to explain phenomenon, it is relatively easy to identify these theories and concepts in daily life. Events in the news are also subject to social psychological analysis. In the CNN article “Could Grisly Murder of College Student Have Been Stopped?” by Scott Glover, Glover details the events surrounding the murder of a University of California, Los Angeles student. Sarah Muhr, a student at UCLA, called the police after she heard screams coming from…

Groupthink is a psychological Phenomenon that occurs within a group in decision making.It occirs when a group of people gather together to make a decision. In group think there is no clear rule for decision making. Everyone in groupthink usually have similar backgrounds. The whole group takes an action together to prove themselves. Groupthink can be destructive if everyone agrees with the idea of one person rather than questioning. Sometimes people set aside own beliefs and agree with the group…

Groupthink refers to the kind of thinking in which members of a group seek concurrence because of cohesiveness among group members whose critical thinking becomes severely impaired as a result of it. They do not seek alternatives to courses of action when presented with policy making decisions, and instead, they are more likely to engage in irrational and dehumanizing actions directed against outgroups. This phenomenon is very strong and common place, but can be very dangerous because group…

Bellamy Essay Richard Bellamy has compiled numerous explanations and theories explaining the complex dynamics of crowds and how they are essentially a living resource for politicians and democracy. He goes in depth on the behavioral discoveries that explain why humans act differently in large groups, how they adopt a sort of “hive mentality”. There are interesting conflicts between philosophers wanting governments to operate a certain way, but it ultimately fails due to human nature unable to…