Social Thinking: Crash Course Psychology #37

Why do people do bad things? Is it because of the situation or who they are at their core? In this week's episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank works to shed a little light on the ideas of Situation vs. Personality. Oh, and we'll have a look at the Stanford Prison Experiment... It's alarming.

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Chapters:
Introduction: Social Psychology 00:00
Attribution Theory 01:29
Fundamental Attribution Error 2:22
Dual-Process Theory of Persuasion 3:18
"Foot-in-the-door" Phenomenon 4:14
Stanford Prison Experiment 5:13
Cognitive Dissonance Theory 8:08
Review & Credits 9:46
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[jasanaha]

In the Stanford Prison Experiment, the guards had sunglasses on when interacting with the prisoners so as not to have eye contact. I think that was a big part of the experiment, but your cartoon did not have sunglasses so I thought I would share.

[Natycookie]

Finally!
My favorite branch of psychology. The situations that bring people to act in a certain matter have always intrigued me. How positions given make people change and do things that they wouldn't have normally done before.

[candygirl]

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[BitterFlower]

I laughed way too hard at the Klansman setting himself on fire at the start

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[mattmanarchy]

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[annatimmerman]

its so hard to read comments and listen

[heavyweaponsgaming]

Remember, Central route persuasion is rarely the one that actually persuades people. That's very important to recognize. Peripheral route persuasion rules the world, as "pessimistic" as that view may seem.

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[Tei_]

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[snaky]

Something to note about the prison experiment is that recently they found a lot of stuff that calls I to question the whole experiment. Like how they advertised to college students looking for guards and prisons. It may have been because college students just act like that and 2 that already aggresive people would be looking to be a guard and that the situation didnt make them like that. They also found that a lot of the participants, mostly the prisoners were acting crazy because they thought that's how they were supposed to be reacting. They were acting. Just something to keep in mind for new watchers.

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