OpenStax Psychology 2e
Chapter 12 - Social Psychology
1967 - "The Wave," a classroom experiment Timeline
1967 - "The Third Wave," a classroom experiment
An experiment in Obedience and Deindividuation
1981 - "The Wave," a TV movie
produced by T.A.T. Communications,
starring Bruce Davison,
based on Ron Jones' writings.
2008 - Die Welle (The Wave)
A German film, directed by Dennis Gansel based on Jones' writings, this adaptation is set in a German classroom of 2008.
2011 - "Lesson Plan, the story of The Third Wave"
a documentary film, featuring Ron Jones, by Philip Neel, State of Crisis Productions. Philip Neel was an original Third Wave class member. The film has won numerous awards and now has worldwide distribution with Mercury Media International.
Solomon Asch's Conformity Study
Solomon Asch
Solomon Asch conducted a study, exposing people in a group to a series of lines, and the participants were asked to match one line with a standard line.
All participants except one were accomplices and gave the wrong answer in 12 of the 18 trials.
The results:
The results showed a surprisingly high degree of conformity: 74% of the participants conformed on at least one trial.
On average people conformed one third of the time. A question is how the group would affect individuals in a situation where the correct answer is less obvious.
Brain Games Conformity Waiting Room
BEEP! What would you do?
Stanley Milgram’s experiment of obedience
Shock Room NR (edited) · 2015 · 1hr 12min
In the early 1960s psychologist Stanley Milgram, in seeking to understand the Holocaust, ran a series of controversial experiments on obedience.
An authority orders you to inflict painful shocks on another person. Most us will obey, claimed Milgram. But will we? And were Milgram’s experiments as much art as science? In dramatizing previously un-filmed versions of the world’s most famous psychology experiment, Shock Room turns a light on the dark side of human behavior and forces us to ask ourselves: what would I do?
The Stanford Prison Experiment
The Stanford Prison Experiment Trailer R-Rated · 2015 · 2hr 2min
Twenty-four male students out of seventy-five were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.
This movie is recommended viewing and available from numerable sources, however due to it's 'R' Rating, will not be class viewed.
Discovering Psychology Updated Edition
Episode 19 - The Power of the Situation
This program examines how our beliefs and behavior can be influenced and manipulated by other people and subtle situational forces, and how social psychologists study human behavior within its broader social context.