#zimbardo

[talesfromthenorsesmouth]

psychology grads in popular media: we despise Freud so much we have clubs about hating him

actual psychology grads (me): if roy lichenstein wasn't dead I'd kill him myself

[patrycjapsyche]

Dlaczego wybrałam kadr ze Squid Game? Pomyślałam, że serial ten może przybliżyć Wam deindywidualizację. Dzisiaj przyjrzymy się temu, jak anonimowość i utrata tożsamości wpływają na nasze zachowanie.

Deindywidualizacja to stan, w którym jednostki tracą poczucie tożsamości i odpowiedzialności, co często prowadzi do zachowań impulsywnych, agresywnych, a niekiedy okrutnych. Zjawisko to zachodzi, gdy ludzie czują się anonimowi i nie muszą ponosić bezpośredniej odpowiedzialności za swoje czyny. Między innymi dlatego niektórzy ludzie wypisują innym naprawdę okropne rzeczy w Internecie.

W latach 70-tych XX wieku Philip Zimbardo przeprowadził słynny eksperyment więzienny, który przedstawił, jak łatwo ludzie potrafią stracić swoje poczucie odpowiedzialności, gdy są częścią grupy, w której zostają pozbawieni tożsamości. Strażnicy, ubrani w mundury i maski, zaczęli wykazywać brutalne i dehumanizujące zachowania wobec więźniów, którzy byli ubrani w identyczne uniformy (swoją drogą, o “etyce” tego eksperymentu zrobię jeszcze osobny post).

Wracając do tematu, w serialu Squid Game, uczestnicy biorący udział w brutalnych grach, gdzie stawką jest życie. Jednak najbardziej uderzającym elementem nie są tylko same brutalne sceny, ale fakt, że tajemnicze postacie w maskach, pełniące rolę strażników, wykonują okrutne polecenia bez jakiejkolwiek osobistej odpowiedzialności. Maski, które noszą, są symboliczne – ukrywają ich tożsamość, co sprawia, że czują się mniej odpowiedzialni za swoje zachowanie. To typowy przykład deindywidualizacji. Z kolei, uczestnicy gier, którzy zostali pozbawieni swojej tożsamości przez numerki, również łatwiej wpadali w rozpaczliwe i drastyczne działania.

Zjawisko deindywidualizacji jest widoczne nie tylko w fikcyjnych produkcjach. Badania wykazały, że noszenie maski w życiu codziennym może zwiększać tendencję do bardziej ekstremalnych zachowań. Kerry, D. M. przeprowadził eksperyment, w którym uczestnicy, nosząc maski, stawali się bardziej agresywni w stosunku do innych, ponieważ czuli się mniej odpowiedzialni za swoje czyny.

Zjawisko deindywidualizacji pokazuje, jak ważna jest tożsamość w naszym zachowaniu. Kiedy tracimy swoją indywidualność, łatwiej jest podjąć decyzje, które normalnie byłyby dla nas nieakceptowalne. Deindywidualizacja może występować online, na protestach, a także w sytuacjach, w których ludzie czują się anonimowi lub pozbawieni osobistej odpowiedzialności. To, co dzieje się w Squid Game, jest więc ekstremalnym przykładem zjawiska, które w mniejszych, mniej brutalnych formach jest obecne w naszym życiu codziennym.

Co sądzicie o tym porównaniu?

Trzymajcie się ciepło, Patrycja

(źródła badań w komentarzu) P.S. Kadr pochodzi z serialu Squid Game (2021) w reżyserii Hwang Dong-hyuk, możecie go znaleźć na Netflixie.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Recent research found the cruelty of Zimbardo’s prison guards didn’t emerge spontaneously; some behaviour was encouraged. Some of the “prisoners” later admitted that they were pretending to be distressed. Similarly, a study published in 2007 found that the 1964 incident that inspired the theory of the bystander effect was distorted. According to the paper, archive material shows far fewer people witnessed the incident than was reported at the time, and some people could only hear screams, without seeing the location of the incident. At least one person did try to intervene. Recent research indicates that bystanders are much more likely to intervene than the theory suggests. A 2019 study of 219 violent situations from cities around the world caught on CCTV showed that bystanders – not just one, usually several – intervened to help victims 90% of the time. The study also found that the more people were present, the more likely passers-by were to intervene. In the words of the study’s lead researcher, Richard Philpot: “It shows that people have a natural inclination to help when they see someone in need.” The burgeoning field of “heroism studies” also questions the bystander effect. In a recent article for The Conversation, I described how acts of heroic altruism are common during terrorist attacks, when people often risk their own lives to help others. Consider the following situation: you’re standing on a train platform. The person next to you suddenly faints and falls on to the track, unconscious. In the distance, you can see a train approaching. What would you do? You might doubt whether you would act heroically. But don’t underestimate yourself. There is a strong possibility that, before you knew it, you would find yourself on down on the track, helping the person to safety. There is a growing awareness amongst researchers that heroism is natural and spontaneous, and by no means exceptional.

[lost-ethics]

Excerpt from Lost: Life & Ethics in The Age of AI, Chapter 42

[aethyrmazz]

An opinion widely held is not evidence of truth.

To add to my little athenaeum, "The Lucifer Effect Understanding How Good People Turn Evil" by Philip Zimbardo published 2007. Experimental psychology. This book focuses on how environmental factors influence individuals to behave immorally, rather than their inherent personal traits.

Being a psychology buff, I myself have turned to the use of psychological manipulation which refers to control tactics that we may use to influence a person's thinkings, emotions, or behaviors. Typically this is done for the manipulators benefit, for persuasion, even personal growth, often done to just prove a point, sometimes done for the sake of chaos (f**k you if you do this)

[origami-butterfly]

Christina Maslach, poster girl of the "I can fix him" movement.

[kani-miso]

@blitz0hno

[cult-of-the-eye]

i was put on this earth to do ethically ambiguous psychology experiments which people will debate about in the future decades because despite the concerning amounts of stress and harm caused, it garnered extremely useful results.

[kikikoifi]

Okay I know I said I was done but then I messed it up and now I’m fixing it and now I love it 🥰 🔪

[unwelcome-ozian]

A remarkable thing about cult mind control is that it’s so ordinary in the tactics and strategies of social influence employed. They are variants of well-known social psychological principles of compliance, conformity, persuasion, dissonance, reactance, framing, emotional manipulation, and others that are used on all of us daily to entice us: to buy, to try, to donate, to vote, to join, to change, to believe, to love, to hate the enemy.

Cult mind control is not different in kind from these everyday varieties, but in its greater intensity, persistence, duration, and scope. One difference is in its greater efforts to block quitting the group, by imposing high exit costs, replete with induced phobias of harm, failure, and personal isolation. – Source: Phillip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D.

[proceduralbob]

That means when you read about the SPE or the many studies in this next section, you might well conclude that you would not do what the majority has done, that you would, of course, be the exception to the rule. That statistically unreasonable belief (since most of us share it) makes you even more vulnerable to situational forces precisely because you underestimate their power as you overestimate yours. You are convince you would be the good guard, the defiant prisoner, the resistor, the dissident, the nonconformist, and, most of all, the Hero. Would that it were so, but heroes are a rare breed.

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, Philip G. Zimbardo

[thirteenandahalfcrows]

Rant about a level psychology specification

I’ve never been more tired of the s level psychology content and specification. It drives me mental, why Tf are we being taught such outdated content that has been tirelessly disproved. Why are we using outdated terminology that could be seen as offensive. Why are we sensationalising specific conditions and states of being.

We are being hammered over the head with the fact that we are in a mental health crisis yet we are teaching invalid, outdated, offensive content; then releasing young adults into roles where they need no more qualifications than the a level in psychology (councillors etc) meaning they have no opportunity to counter the knowledge.

Then in their jobs where they are dealing with vulnerable individuals, what do you think they are going to do???? They are going to revert to the incorrect info— ‘affectionless psychopathy’, ‘Sex and gender is biologically the same’, ‘men fight women fawn cuz biology’, ‘is the role of the father important?’, ‘men have an evolved need to exhibit sexual guarding behaviours’, fucking Freud, explaining the difference between sex and gender then implementing them incorrectly in mark schemes, zimbardo, ‘this intersex person is female/male’, bowlby.

I CAN GO ON THERE IS SO MUCH MORE

Istg I have not seen a piece of research in my content booklets made after 2010

I’m so sick and tired— this is so dangerous and it’s also so disgusting having to hear bs that I know is weird or has beennnnn disproved being spoken as fact.

And everyone is 16-18 and no one knows any different bc we go to college to learn, so why would they think that’s wrong? Like these are rly decisive topics, so how are you gunna sit there and be teaching bs that could contribute to unscientific and/or bigoted beliefs

WHY AM I LEARNING THINGS THAT WERE TAUGHT OVER 30 YEARS AGO. New psychological papers and perspectives are being published all the time— revolutionary research that changed perspective of certain topics, yet we are still learning bs!!!!! And it’s not out of incompetence or inability, like the medicine course specs are updated all the timeeeeee

Anyways apparently they are changing the spec the next academic yr, dk what it’s gunna be like but praying for all of you that have to sit through it

[roomselfcontain2]

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[lost-ethics]

Excerpt from Lost: Life & Ethics in The Age of AI, Chapter 42