AP Psych Social Psychology people

Darley, Latane

2 men who studied bystander effect; saw if people individually or in a group would respond to a person seizing up

Rosenthal, Jacobson

2 men who studied the pygmalion effect; told teachers some students were smarted than others and looked at how greater expectations of teachers created greater performance in students

Festinger, Carlsmith

2 men worked together and had people do monotonous tasks and paid them money to do so, those paid more said they enjoyed the tasks more; cognitive dissonance

Zimbardo

Stanford prison experiment; studied deindividulization

Kelley

developer of attribution theory

Asch

performed line test with people to see if they would conform with others

Milgram

performed the shock test to see how obedient people were

Sherif

studied contact theory/superordinate goals; forced unfriendly campers to work together towards one goal which relieved tensions in their relationships

Janis

studied group think

Bandura

studied the social learning theory; Bobo doll experiment to see if kids from watching adults would also be aggressive towards a Bobo doll

LaPiere

traveled with an Asian couple up and down the west coast watching how they were treated, they were treated nicer than people said they would; cognitive dissonance