Title: 11.2 Self-Presentation – Introductory Psychology
Headings: 11.2 Self-Presentation
11.2 Self-Presentation
Learning Objectives
SOCIAL ROLES
Being a student is just one of the many social roles you have. (credit: “University of Michigan MSIS”/Flickr)
SOCIAL NORMS
Tweens, Teens, and Social Norms
Young people struggle to become independent at the same time they are desperately trying to fit in with their peers. (credit: Monica Arellano-Ongpin)
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ZIMBARDO’S STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT
Iraqi prisoners of war were abused by their American captors in Abu Ghraib prison, during the second Iraq war. (credit: United States Department of Defense)
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Content: Situational influences on our behavior have important consequences, such as whether we will help a stranger in an emergency or how we would behave in an unfamiliar environment. SOCIAL ROLES
One major social determinant of human behavior is our social roles. A social role is a pattern of behavior that is expected of a person in a given setting or group (Hare, 2003). Each one of us has several social roles. You may be, at the same time, a student, a parent, an aspiring teacher, a son or daughter, a spouse, and a lifeguard. How do these social roles influence your behavior? Social roles are defined by culturally shared knowledge. That is, nearly everyone in a given culture knows what behavior is expected of a person in a given role. Additionally, we as a society tend to punish social norms when we see them being violated, in some situations more than others. Rost, Stahel, and Frey (2016) found that people use social media as a platform to fight against those who do not follow certain social norms and rules.