Social Psychology studies

Asch study

showed that social pressure can make individuals conform to incorrect group decisions

Bandura’s bobo doll study

children who watched an agressive model showed higher levels of agression

hostile attribution bias

the tendency to percieve ambiguous actions by others as aggresive

Bushman lost email study

higher prejudice participants were more likely to foward emails with bad news to arab surnames

sherrif’s study on robert cave experiment

when groups were competing for resources, it created an in group vs. outgroup

eyewitness study

own race faces are better remembered then memory of faces for another

Rosenthal and Jacobson self fulfiling prophecy

when teachers expect greater intelectual growth for students, the students show greater academic progress