I got to use Gulf of America as the butt of a joke / example in class yesterday, since we were talking about social influence, majority and minority influence in particular. The joke being it’s a real life case of Solomon Asch’s line experiments.
If everyone in the room suddenly was calling it the Gulf of America in a room, you might feel inclined to do so out of public compliance— but, that doesn’t mean acceptance, it more likely means you don’t want to get shot. And just having one more person in the room to agree with, you won’t feel as inclined.
Fun fact, this whole subfield of psychology came out of post WW2 desire to understand why people would follow a Nazi dictator. How eerily familiar, if not a parody with how stupid this all is.
I got to use Gulf of America as the butt of a joke / example in class yesterday, since we were talking about social influence, majority and minority influence in particular. The joke being it’s a real life case of Solomon Asch’s line experiments.
If everyone in the room suddenly was calling it the Gulf of America in a room, you might feel inclined to do so out of public compliance— but, that doesn’t mean acceptance, it more likely means you don’t want to get shot. And just having one more person in the room to agree with, you won’t feel as inclined.
Fun fact, this whole subfield of psychology came out of post WW2 desire to understand why people would follow a Nazi dictator. How eerily familiar, if not a parody with how stupid this all is.