Social Psychology Paper
Analyze one of the movies listed below in terms of their relevance to social
psychology. You must analyze your movie for the starred, bold items below; then
choose 5 more optional terms to explore in your paper.
The Breakfast Club
Crash
Fight Club
The Shawshank Redemption
12 Angry Men
Hotel Rwanda
~The structure and function of groups
**Cultural norms
•Roles
•Role conflict
•Social dilemma/social trap
**Social comparison theory
~Factors of group influence
**conformity
**informational social influence
**normative social influence
**Obedience (relating Milgram’s study)
**Deindividuation
•Social facilitation
**Social loafing
**Group polarization effect
**Groupthink
~Attribution theory
•dispositional vs. situational
attributions
**fundamental attribution error
•hedonic relevance
•actor-observer differences
•primacy effect
~Attitudes and Attitude Change
**cognitive-dissonance theory (Festinger)
•foot-in-the-door technique
•door-in-the-face technique
~Stereotypes, prejudice, racism, and discrimination
•illusory correlation
**ingroup bias/outgroup
**scapegoat theory
•just-world
phenomenon
•aggression
•frustrationaggression
hypothesis
•sexual aggression
and the media
•social traps
•mirror-image
perceptions
•prisoner game
**zero-sum game
•attraction
**mere-exposure effect
•altruism
**bystander effect
•social exchange
theory
•superordinate goals
•GRIT