What does peer pressure mean?
AnswerInfluence from people in your own group
Peer pressure is the push to match what your group does.
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The basics
What is empathy?
AnswerUnderstanding and sharing another person's feelings
Empathy means seeing a situation from someone else's point of view.
Going deeper
Solomon Asch is known for experiments on what?
AnswerConformity
Asch's line-judgment studies showed people often go along with a group.
What is the bystander effect?
AnswerPeople are less likely to help when others are present
Responsibility feels spread out in a group, so each person acts less.
Which psychologist coined the term groupthink?
AnswerIrving Janis
Janis described groupthink in the early 1970s.
Expert level
Who wrote The Division of Labor in Society?
AnswerEmile Durkheim
Durkheim published it in 1893.
Norman Triplett's 1898 study of social facilitation observed which group?
AnswerCyclists riding faster with others
Triplett noticed cyclists were faster when racing alongside others.
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