Studies have shown that people can be influenced by the peers. In a study concerning about closing a door, people generally wouldn't close the door, but hardly anyone closes the door if more than two people goes through at the same time.
Identity is very important as well. In a social group, a personal image for others is especially important, as it is a prevention of social disgrace. The defense of the personal image can be quite vicious.
Cryonics is also a good example of Psychology. When a human brain is restored to its normal state after being frozened, will all the memory be gone. Will the person know itself? Or if it was Einstein, will he know how to continue his great works of physics? Or will he be a lamb-brained person? ( LINK HERE, If interested in getting frozened -
www.cl.org )
After a whole lunch-time researching on social psychology, we (Samuel + Eugene) managed to figure out that aggression is based on two main factors: 1) whether the person is sadistic or not, 2) whether the person has suffered any emotional unhappiness (i.e. grief). Aggression is one of the
defense mechanisms, and closely linked with
denial, which is the refusal of believing something has happened.
Denial could be catergrised into interpersonal and intrapersonal. Interpersonal denial would be deny to other people that it something didn't happen; something that the individual feels too stressed to believe in. Intrapersonal denial is within the own self; the struggle between thought and reality, what happened and what didn't ... a bit like
PTSD. A person denying would find it more logical, but needs treatment of somekind (either by someone else or by conquering it themself).
Our further plans of investigation would be to
- Interview victim
- Ask witnesses
- Further observations
- More creativity needed to design fair psychological experiments.
- read more (think more)
- link it with bussiness studies and robotics
To be finished
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