Social Psychology

Chapter nine brings out a very important and scary part of society, deindividuation. In this chapter individuation is defined as “the loosening of normal constraints on behavior when people are in a crowd, leading to an increase in impulsive and deviant acts.” Acts of violence seem to be the dominating act in many of these situations. The fact that people seem to lose their individuality when they conform to the crowd’s behavior is disturbing. …

…an audience. I would have thought that it wouldn’t have mattered how good you are at pool, the player would play the same, with or without an audience. The use of negotiation is a topic that I use frequently. I have used it to try to negotiate extra points in some of my classes, I have used it to get my out of trouble, and I have used it to barter for better things.