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EPPP Psychology

Category - Social and Cultural Bases of Behavior

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Zimbardo studied group influence on behavior in a couple of different experiments that put randomly selected individuals in positions of power over other randomly selected individuals. His experiments demonstrated the power of what two factors of group influence?
  1. Groupthink, power struggles
  2. Deindividuation, anonymity
  3. Anonymity, conformity
  4. Deindividuation, conformity
Explanation
Answer: B - Zimbardo’s Stanford University prison study demonstrated the power of deindividuation-the process of suspending personal identity to adopt a group identity. In a later experiment, where students dressed in Ku Klux Klan outfits administered far more severe shocks than students with no costumes and large name tags, he demonstrated the influence of anonymity on deindividuation.
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