Individuals & Groups Essay Titles 2019-20-1 PDF

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Individuals & Groups 2019-20 Essay questions

Please choose one essay title from any of the following sections: Section 1: Personality

1. How is ‘personality’ revealed? 2. To what extent are traits useful for explaining particular widespread social phenomena? 3. To what extent do we learn who we are? Section 2: Obedience and social influence 4. What important questions about obedience have been left unanswered by Milgram’s research?" 5. How good is the evidence to support the idea that social influence is underestimated? 6. Critically evaluate any one of Cialdini’s ‘principles’ of influence. Section 3: Group influence 7. “The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black.” – Solomon Asch. To what extent does the empirical evidence support Asch’s statement about conformity in social life? 8. Many hands make light work.” To what extent does working collectively (as opposed to individually) lead to beneficial outcomes? 9. To what extent can social psychologists reduce prejudice in the real world? You should draw on theoretical explanations of prejudice and empirical evidence to support your arguments....