Speaker 1: All that everyone, we're looking at group dynamics and social
Speaker 1: influence processes. Again, we're going to kind of go into
Speaker 1: social psychology. Conformity is shaped by normative and informational pressures.
Speaker 1: Then we'll talk about compliance techniques like footing the door
Speaker 1: and door in the face. And we'll also be looking
Speaker 1: at obedience to authority, groupthink, and social behavior changes with
Speaker 1: audience presence, facilitation, or group anonymity. We'll look at group
Speaker 1: settings that can lead to polarization and loafing and how
Speaker 1: they've influenced us in the therapy room. So some of
Speaker 1: this things, some of these things will be repeats to
Speaker 1: what we talked about before. First one is ASHES conformity
Speaker 1: experiments The Power of disagreeing alone. Solomon Ash asked participants
Speaker 1: to judge which of the three lines matched a standard line.
Speaker 1: When alone, they answered accurately, but when surrounded by confederates
Speaker 1: who clearly gave wrong answers over a third even though
Speaker 1: they knew the answer was wrong. This has been redone
Speaker 1: several times and still getting the same results. Normative influence
Speaker 1: was at play participants who didn't believe the group, but
Speaker 1: they didn't want to stand out. Now flip it in
Speaker 1: conditions where one person gave the right answer, it conformity dropped.
Speaker 1: So that's the normative influence. Milgram's experiments a little different
Speaker 1: when we're looking there the Milgram's obedience studies, Stanley Milgrim's
Speaker 1: participants belither or do you, delivering increasingly severe electric shock
Speaker 1: to a learner for every wrong answer, even though no
Speaker 1: real shocks were administered under the direction of an authority
Speaker 1: figure in a lab coat. About sixty five percent continued
Speaker 1: to the highest voltage four hundred and fifty volts, even
Speaker 1: when the other individuals were screaming or even scarier fell silent.
Speaker 1: Milgrim's inside people obey authority even when it violates their values,
Speaker 1: especially when the authority is seen as legitimate the responsible
Speaker 1: he feels transferred right. They're not culpable. Somebody else is
Speaker 1: doing is telling me to do this, and there's gradual escalation. Clinically,
Speaker 1: you can see why clients stay in abusive systems or
Speaker 1: follow onhealthy group norms, maybe the cult like or silence, dissent,
Speaker 1: and high pressured environments. It also calls therapists to be
Speaker 1: mindful of their own influence. Then we go to another
Speaker 1: famous experiment, Thembardo Stanford prison experiment. This is the role
Speaker 1: of identity. Students were randomly assigned to be prisoners or
Speaker 1: guards and a simulate a prison. Within days, guards became abusive,
Speaker 1: her prisoners became submissive, and the situation spiraled. The experiment
Speaker 1: was halted after six days. I believe it was his
Speaker 1: wife who told him he needed to stop the experiment.
Speaker 1: This wasn't about individual pathology. It was about situational power.
Speaker 1: How to sign roles, symbols, uniforms, sunglasses, and so forth,
Speaker 1: and the individuation loss of personal identity could transform behavior.
Speaker 1: Therapists working in institutional settings met stay alert to roll
Speaker 1: creep when authority or submission distorts treatment. Conformity normative versus
Speaker 1: informational Normative conformity is changing behavior to fit in avoid rejection.
Speaker 1: Everyone in group therapy said they're fine, So I don't
Speaker 1: bring up my relapse as an example informational conformity changing
Speaker 1: belief because you think the group knows better. They all
Speaker 1: seem sure this treatment works, so maybe I'm wrong to
Speaker 1: question it. Group norms can shape everything from disclosure in
Speaker 1: therapy to risk taking and adolescens compliance techniques now are
Speaker 1: shifting gears to foot in the door. Start small to
Speaker 1: gain compliance with a bigger request later. Can I call
Speaker 1: you tomorrow? Two? Can you come to the clinic? A
Speaker 1: door in the face, Start big, then make a smaller,
Speaker 1: more reasonable request. Can you volunteer weekly? Well? Could you
Speaker 1: just do one session? Low ball technique, offer favorable terms
Speaker 1: and change them after agreement. The tests only takes thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: but then add more. These play out in sales, healthcare,
Speaker 1: and everyday requests, but they also appear in Coulton doctrination
Speaker 1: relationships and manipulative therapy settings. We also see these sometimes
Speaker 1: in a domestic violence group think when agreement Trump's reality
Speaker 1: irving Janus remember him described Janus, I'm sorry. Groupthink as
Speaker 1: a mode of thinking and cohesive groups with a desire
Speaker 1: for unanity overrides critical evaluation just want to get along
Speaker 1: with everybody else. Symptoms include illusion of and vulnerability, suppression
Speaker 1: of dissent, stereotyping of the outsiders, self censorship, and mind guards.
Speaker 1: Groupthink thrives in high pressure and homogenous groups with very
Speaker 1: strong leaders and weak norms for questioning prevention as a
Speaker 1: sign of Devil's advocate, encourage open critique, seek input from outsiders,
Speaker 1: and break the group into independent subgroups. This matters and
Speaker 1: treatment teams, ethical decisions, family therapies, and so forth. Social
Speaker 1: facilitation and loafing. Social facilitation and performance improves on tasks
Speaker 1: in front of others, so public speaking, some people get
Speaker 1: energized or anxiety induced, depending on the speaker's company with
Speaker 1: the content. Basically, the more they know the content, the
Speaker 1: stronger they feel when they have an audience. The less
Speaker 1: they know, the more anxious they become. So again, they
Speaker 1: do better when they understand the topics in front of others,
Speaker 1: but on complex or new topics they perform worse. Social
Speaker 1: loving social loafing is when individuals put in less effort
Speaker 1: when a group versus working alone. I think every student's
Speaker 1: experienced this when they have group projects and somebody doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to be daring all their weight. Individuals put in
Speaker 1: someone will else will speak up. As another component that
Speaker 1: we've seen with social loafing, therapist running group therapy must
Speaker 1: balance group support with individual accountability. Next is the individuation
Speaker 1: losing self in groups and large groups, especially where anonymity
Speaker 1: is present masks, online avatars, uniforms, people become less self
Speaker 1: aware and more impulsive. The individuation It leads to reduced
Speaker 1: empathy increased aggression behavior outside personal norms. This is where
Speaker 1: we see a lot of the crowd violence the mom
Speaker 1: mentality that you're seeing online. Yes, there are some criminal
Speaker 1: elements in the mom mentality too, cyber bullying online radicalization
Speaker 1: can also be caused by this. Even group therapy members
Speaker 1: getting up during conflict reintroduce self awareness by using names,
Speaker 1: encouraging reflection, asking how would you feel if this were
Speaker 1: said to you? Group polarization extremes become more extremes, so
Speaker 1: group discussion doesn't always bring balance, It often amplifies the
Speaker 1: dominant leanings. This is another area moderates martos drift towards extremes.
Speaker 1: The support group that leans towards medical mistrust me reinforce
Speaker 1: anti treatment beliefs over time. For therapists, this is important
Speaker 1: for us. It's to monitor the group norms and look
Speaker 1: to challenge escalation and use diverse perspectives to dilute bias
Speaker 1: reinforce critical thinking. So, for all the stuff that we
Speaker 1: learned today about group dynamics, how does it work in
Speaker 1: our field? Well? Therapeutic groups harness normative pressure for accountability
Speaker 1: and connection, use modeling and feedback to reduce isolation and shame.
Speaker 1: Watch for conformity and dominance really important and silencing as well.
Speaker 1: Pure groups should shape health behavior, medication, adhere in substance use,
Speaker 1: understand where clients sit in their social systems. Number three
Speaker 1: is cult influencing course of groups. Recruit using gradual compliance,
Speaker 1: social isolation and identity immersion. Exit often requires re establishing
Speaker 1: individual agency and critical thinking, workplace dynamics, and consultation. So conflict,
Speaker 1: burnout and ethical drift often emerge from group norms, power imbalances,
Speaker 1: and diffusion of responsibility. The effect of consultants will seek
Speaker 1: will assess communication patterns, status, hierarchies, and feedback systems to
Speaker 1: break these loops. So there you go a little bit
Speaker 1: of social psyche for today. Next time we'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and talk about cultural competence and how that influences U