Psühholoogia bioloogiline-, kognitiivne- ja sotsiaalne vaade
sometimes use deceit and observe people, without them knowing and get into their
personal lives.
Describe the role of situational and dispositional factors in explaining behavior.
Human behavior is influenced more by social situations than by dispositional factors
such as the individual's personality. Deindividuation is a state of increased anonymity
in which a person, often as a part of a group or crowd, engages in disinhibited
behavior. Factors influencing deindividuation are shared responsibility, impulsive
action, loss of personal norms, conformity and social roles. Anything that strips us of
our personal identity (e.g. uniforms, anonymity) can produce feelings of
deindividuation.
A series of studies on obedience by Milgrim were carried out among men and women
from 20 to 50 years of age. The participants were told that they are in an experiment
about the effects of punishment on memory