Week 6 Lecture

For our week 6 lecture we had UNSW School of Psychology. Tom Denson talk to us about Psychology. Mainly relating to group and peer dynamics. So how people react to others in a group, and if how they follow along with what other people say even if they know it is wrong.

Tom Denson showed us some of the previous experiments that have been conducted in groups, where all except one of the people in the group knows about the experiment. In one of the experiments they where asked a simple question and then told to call out the answer. It showed that when all the people who know about the experiment call out the wrong answer, the subject is around 80% more likely to knowingly say the wrong answer to fit in. If asked to write down the answer privately then the subject is almost always correct.

I thought this was a very good lecture, i learnt alot of things and it is ashame that the lecture was cut short due to time constraints. It would have been great to hear more about what tom ahd to say. I felt he related his lecture to our class very well and we all had some very good discussions.