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1) Introduction a)  What is social Influence? i) When an individual’s thoughts or actions are influenced by others b)  Simplify i) Everything a person, any person, says or does, is either directly or indirectly influenced by others, no exceptions. c)  Subcategories of social influence i) Compliance (1)  Bystander effect <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">ii)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Identification <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">(1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Hero worship, halo effect <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">iii) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Internalization <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">d)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How does social influence affect the everyday lives of a high school student at Springfield Township? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">i) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Social influence affects the lives of students at Springfield Township through such social phenomenon as group polarization, deindividuation, and compliance. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">2)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group Polarization <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">a) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Definition <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">i)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The tendency of people to make decisions that are more extreme when they are in a group, as opposed to a decision made alone or independently <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">b) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Examples <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">i)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Juries, angry mobs, protesters, Nazi Germany, Crucible etc <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">c) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How are high school students affected? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">i)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Peer pressure <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">ii) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Crucible effect <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">3)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Deindividuation <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">a) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Definition <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">i)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">iI the situation where anti-normative behavior is released in groups in which individuals are not seen or paid attention to as individuals. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">(1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Stress: this is not necessarily a negative, cult-like situation. Simply put, it is a situation where the group is looked at more than the individual <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">ii) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How does this affect high school students?  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">(1)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Cliques  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">(a)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">When one is on the outside looking in, many cliques seem to be made up of “the same people”. However, each person is an individual, though this fact may be ignored in favor of the overall group. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">(i)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The group becomes your identity. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">4)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Compliance <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">a) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Definition <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">i)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Responding favorably to an explicit or implicit request offered by others <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">(1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Social validation <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">ii) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How does this effect high school students? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">(1)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Peer pressure <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">(a)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Compliance, in its most genuine form, is the result of peer pressure.  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">(2)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Compliance is known to be enhanced by a number of situational manipulations such as foot-in-the-door, door-in-the-face, low-ball and ingratiation. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">5)  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Conclusion <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msolist: Ignore;">a) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Restate thesis, restate main points