PSY362-RS-12 Angry Men PDF

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Topic 7: Groups and Aggression Angry Men 12 Discuss patterns of persuasion, conformity, and minority influence witnessed in the film, providing .1 . specific examples Persuasion: a way of manipulating or influencing attitudes and behaviors of another (Gilovich et al., 2018). The plot of the movie surrounds a young man accused of murdering his father and while on trial, juror 8 is trying very hard to persuade the other jurors that the evidence and facts being presented .( showed the young mans innocence (Fonda, Rose, & Lumet, 1957 Conformity: whether for the good or bad, the change that takes place in changing what someone believes or even how they act. Within the movie, when a vote was needing to be made, although jurors weren’t not 100% sold on their choice, they ended up voting with the masses afraid to be different. When the numbers came it was 11 to 1 guilty, 9 to 3 for not guilty, but then ultimately reverted back .( around 8 to 4 guilty (Fonda, Rose, & Lumet, 1957 Minority Influence: opposite from normal standards, this metric is when a member of the minority is able to speak on enough grounds that the majority listens and accepts their beliefs (Gilovich et al., 2018). The entire structure of the jurors would resemble this influence, because juror 8 was able to influence some of the others to understand and listen to what he was trying to explain in fighting for this . man’s innocence Other social influences: This form of influence was used throughout the discussions between jurors. Those who wavered on a guilty verdict ultimately chose with the masses in order to render a verdict . rather than stand on the grounds of innocence they believed were true .2 Example 1: The race of the teenager played a Huge role in the stereotype that all blacks came from violent nature which should be cause for a guilty verdict. The jurors also believed lack of respect and . morality of the newer generations would lead to such hateful crimes to be committed Example 2: Another juror used race as the depiction of the teenager stating anyone else who was like .( him, were born with a dishonest manner built for stealing and drinking (Fonda, Rose, & Lumet, 1957 Example 3: Juror number 3 associated neighborhoods and upbringings with the automatic anomaly that . they too were just as bad and would have horrible personalities and manners Example 4: A juror who had a previous altercation with his own personal son, took that bias and displayed it upon on the teenager stating that all teens were the same and because he was irritated took it . out on his guilty verdict .3 Heuristic 1: Availability, basing the judgements off of the frequency of a particular event (Gilovich et al., 2018). In the film making a verdict before seeing all the facts is a prime example and even more so placing the guilty verdict with only knowledge of the past criminal record but not having any other facts

. tied together as proof Heuristic 2: Using his upbringing, style and location against him at eye level to automatically deserve a . guilty result shows the availability Heuristic 3: Representativeness is when we try and categorize our judgements by how similar it is to others in that category (Gilovich et al., 2018). Because one juror had issues with his own son, he then applied that relationship onto the teenager noting that he too probably had a bad relationship in which . led him to commit the murder When a person or situation allow for change to happen it can be defined as a catalyst for change. For .4 this movie number 8 could be identified as the catalyst for change with his ability to see the teenager was not guilty and the steps he took hoping to persuade the other jurors to see the truth as well. He went farther than the others to see what gaps laid in the case and was even able to get some of the other jurors to see the truth in evidence and change their votes. Self-efficacy revolves around the personal capabilities of one another, and in this movie juror 8 knew it was his duty to make things right and not . gain a wrongful verdict

.5 Group Polarization: group decisions are extreme; so if they lean in one direction, they will enhance . that idea or thought to reach in that direction at max capacity Group Think: thinking or making decisions as a group that wants conformity but results in irrational .( choices (Gilovich et al., 2018

:References . Bandura, A. (1994). Self-efficacy. Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 4, 71-81 https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Bandura/BanEncy.html Fonda, H., Rose, R. (Producers). & Lumet, S. (Director). (1957). 12 angry men [Film]. Orion-Nova Productions & Gilovich, T., Keltner, D., Chen, S., & Nisbett, R. E. (2018). Social Psychology. W.W. Norton Company, Inc. https://digital.wwnorton.com/44952/r/goto/cfi/8!/4...