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Topic 7: Groups and Aggression 12 Angry Men For this assignment, you will need to watch the film, 12 Angry Men (1957, Orion-Nova Productions). The film brings to life many of the concepts covered in class to date. Below, please provide specific examples from the film to support your ideas/claims. Integrate at least two expert sources and be sure to include proper APA citations within your document and at the end (reference section). Note: Most of this information can be pulled from your textbook. You may type directly into this worksheet. Each answer must be substantial and include some detail if you want to earn full credit. Be sure to define the concepts. 1. Discuss patterns of persuasion, conformity, and minority influence witnessed in the film, providing specific examples. Persuasion: Out of the twelve men eleven of them voted guilty, juror eight was against the others and claimed that the defendant was innocent. He began trying to persuade the other jurors who voted guilty to give the defendant one last shot to look at the prosecution from a new angle. He uses feelings as a persuasive approach and argues that his father has exploited the defendant, which is why he stabbed him. The purpose of Juror 8 is to convince the jury to vote for the defendant not guilty of the truth of the defendant's life (Lumet, 1957). Conformity: Eleven of the twelve jurors voted guilty which indicates conformity. While some jurors might have had different opinions, they came together and supported the majority who voted guilty because they never wanted to go against it. Only one of the jurors went against the majority and did not vote guilty, giving hope to a minority. Minority Influence: It is determined by juror 8 by being greatly outnumbered and overwhelmed. Journal Eight is the only one that at first assumes that the perpetrator is not guilty and that the other jurors' verdict is not right (Lumet, 1957). While eleven jurors were guilty and jurors were just the eight on the opposing side, he succeeded in manipulating them and eventually, unanimously voted on them. Other social influences: Various jurors' decisions were impaired by a bias that contributed to a culpable vote. They were built on their decisions that the defendant had become a criminal and not even on the deep reality of prejudice against the defendant.

2. Analyze issues of stereotypes and prejudice observed while watching the jurors deliberate. There are many to choose from!

Example 1: The fourth juror ruled guilty because the defendant was born and raised in the slums, labeling him a suspect. Example 2: The assumption that the accused was an African American led one of the jurors who did not believe him because all African Americans were, according to him, criminals. Example 3: Throughout the whole video, the tenth juror refers to the defendant as they do, and the reason that he doesn't like the defendant is because of his race. Example 4: One of the juror's claims that it would be safer if all the slum children were taken and beaten before they become a threat to society is a stereotype that made the defendant feel stuck (Schuberth, Zheng, Pasalich, McMahon, Kamboukos, Dawson-McClure& Brotman,2019). 3. In psychology, heuristics are simple, efficient rules which people often use to form judgments and make decisions. They are mental shortcuts that usually involve focusing on one aspect of a complex problem and ignoring others. Determine if there was evidence of cognitive heuristics and label it (e.g. availability, false consensus, social proof). Discuss where/how it occurred. Heuristic 1: Arguments were popular between the defendant and his father. This caused the witness to believe that the defendant had stabbed his father. There is social evidence that the claimant can not be counted on because the knife alleged to be used is normal and even one of the jurors has it (Lumet, 1957). Heuristic 2: The juries voted guilty because they claimed the children born and raised in the slums were criminals.

Heuristic 3: Eleven of the twelve men voted guilty, and only one of them rejected their decision, which is a result of a false majority. 4. Interpret the catalyst of change that resulted in the outcome of the film, based on your perceptions. How does this line up with some of the research in social psychology? A catalyst is an object or material that induces a reaction or transition to occur. In this film, the eighth juror is a trigger for reform because his vote of opposition contributed to a change in the votes of the other jurors (Lumet, 1957). The juror was in a position to connect without causing his judgments to be tainted by bias. According to some studies in social psychology, things can be different from their physical image, and a person or occurrence may result in a dramatic change (Schuberth, et al, 2019).

5. Discuss if the group in the film demonstrate group polarization. Were they at risk for groupthink? Explain: The jurors find a decision, whether or not the perpetrator is guilty, as an indication of groupthink in the film. All the jurors had the intention or not to vote culpably and followed as all others, except the eighth juror, had thought. One case of party polarity in the film is that the eleven jurors voted for guilty based on witness testimony, not taking other factors into account. Juror 8, however, led the debate and his claims were not guilty where he was followed by other jurors.

Group Polarization: It is a process where the members of the party shift towards one extreme stage, resulting in a change in attitudes between them.

Group Think: It is a phenomenon of social psychology where a group of individuals makes a conformity-based decision, which in turn results in low-quality outcomes.

References:

Lumet, S. (1957). 12 Angry Men [Film]. Chelsea Studios in New York City; Orion-Nova Productions.

Schuberth, D. A., Zheng, Y., Pasalich, D. S., McMahon, R. J., Kamboukos, D., Dawson-McClure, S., &

Brotman, L. M. (2019). The Role of Emotion Understanding in the Development of Aggression Callous-Unemotional Features across Early Childhood. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 4, 619. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s10802-018-0468-9...