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Decisions

Decisions. Pressures: Peer and Authoritative . Success and Happiness. A result of making more correct choices than incorrect? . Pressure. Makes it difficult to make good decisions Leads to hasty and poor decision making

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Decisions

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  1. Decisions Pressures: Peer and Authoritative

  2. Success and Happiness A result of making more correct choices than incorrect?

  3. Pressure • Makes it difficult to make good decisions • Leads to hasty and poor decision making • Our goal: to develop a logical, systematic approach in dealing with the varying situations faced in life • After all, a diamond is just a rock that handled pressure extremely well.

  4. Jimmy Kimmel-Style Pressure

  5. Solomon Asch • Group Pressure • 1950s • 120 subjects shown 2 cards with lines of same length • Asked if lines were the same length • Control group: no pressure • 95% accuracy

  6. Solomon Asch Con’t • Group pressure exerted • Trained confederates instructed to answer incorrectly • One (untrained) confederate becomes subject • Trained asked first– subject last • Subjects gave a WRONG answer • Results • 95% accuracy on own • 67% when pressured by peers

  7. Solomon Asch • Two Opposing Forces • Evidence drawn from his own senses • Unanimous opinion of a group of his peers • What would you have done?

  8. Stanly Milgram • Authoritative Pressure • 1950 • Subject told he’s helping researchers test physical punishment’s effects on memory • Administer electric shocks to unseen learner • More mistakes learner makes, the higher shock intensity administered

  9. Stanly MilgramCon’t • How will subject react to Authoritative Persuasion from researcher? • Subject doesn’t know learner is accomplice in research • Learner continually makes mistakes, given greater shocks • Complains of heart condition, screams, wails, begs to end experiment • At what point will subject defy researcher’s orders to electrocute?

  10. Stanley Milgram Results • Majority followed orders when it would seem obvious that they [the orders] should be defied • 80% gave shocks which would have produced unbearable pain • 60% obeyed completely, giving deadly shocks

  11. Discussion • Is it too easy to base our decisions on the actions others? • Peers? • Leaders? • Why are we so willing to follow, instead of making our own decisions? • How do we use rational, logical thinking process to the problems and decisions we constantly face so that we are able to make more responsible, correct decisions and fewer wrong decisions?

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