Social Psychology Case Study

Social Psychologist tend to ask questions when they want to answer a question about people’s behavior. Why do people do the things they do? Social psychologists want to explain this behavior. For example, the questions, “why do we hurt each other? Why does genocide happen?” can be answered by testing a hypothesis formed from their previous knowledge. To approach this question, social psychologist can use what they have observed to create an experiment. There are many influences on aggression, such as: the physical environment, wealth inequality, social rejection, culture, and media. Social psychologists use all this information to conduct their studies to explain why people hurt others and how people can even participate in genocide. Social psychologists know that people hurt each other when they are angry, and the angrier a person is the more likely they are willing to aggress. The social psychologists would observe people while they are being provoked. The scale can range from not being provoked at all to being very provoked. An example of the scale can be from your brother eating some of your candy all the

Social psychologist can look at people’s aggressive reactions to media violence and study why people behave aggressively. It is good to look at the people who did not react in an aggressive way and who did act in an aggressive way, to explain the aggressive behavior. Social psychologist can ask, “does watching violent media increase violent behavior?” This is a question that led to the violent video game study. The participants who played the violent video games were more likely to be more violent compared to the participants who played a non-violent video game. This also was shown in the Bandura’s Bobo Doll study. A recent example can be all of the police brutality that is happening today, many black people can become very angry and start to become aggressive, such as the riots in