Post 6 - Social Psych Blog

Today I'm going to cook up a bit about the social psychology of your close friends, or your homies, if you will.

Compliance: Compliance is the least level of conformity. It's agreeability at face value but possibly disagreeing with your true, hidden beliefs. These homies aren't "gang" and can be best described as "fake". One of my homies once displayed compliance when I was talking to him about something and it seemed like we were on the same page,  but then he started clowning on me behind my back about that same topic.

Obedience: Obedience is doing an action under orders of an authority figure. Justin, one of my close homies, is my obedient pet. He does whatever I tell him to do. One specific situation was when I told him to say "meow", and in that next second he began to make all the different meowing sounds that he knew of.

Social Facilitation: Social facilitation can be described as how the presence of other's improve ones performance. There was a time where I was doing my quiz and my homies walked in on me and just their presence made me feel motivated. I ended up getting a grade that was over 20 points higher than the class average so I think their presence definitely impacted me.

Group Polarization: Group Polarization is when a group continuously boost each other and continue ad infinitum to an extreme. One time, my squad was discussing a topic and we all kept on saying some funny things and we all kept hyping eachtoher up. Then one of my homie made an outlandish and blasphemous statement and we all hit bro with the "pause". 

Reciprocity Norms: Reciprocity Norms are social rules that state that one is supposed to repay the kindness they receive. One time, I was walking with my homies and he had to tie his shoe so I stuck back with him while my other homies went ahead. Then another time, that same homie decided to wait for me when our homies went ahead and I had to tie my Croc's.