Social Psychology: The Negative Effects Of Superpowers

Social psychology has evolved a lot since the past few years, in a particular study that was conducted by Julie Y. Huang, Joshua M Ackerman, and John A. Bargh, researches the effects that different superpowers would have on social occurrences like rejection and exclusion. Such a theory had been based off of the first iconic superhero in America (Superman). He was a commonly well-known image of invulnerability while having other capabilities such as super strength and flight. People of this common day and age had placed him above all other beings that resemble humans or mankind since he isn’t affected by physical dangers what so ever. People of this day and age are more affected by social exclusion and rejection; in our mindset it is considered to be a more fearful encounter than actual physical pain since laws and medical care were put into place. Nothing really stops social occurrences from going wrong, for a group or a person to suddenly reject another for any type of reason. It doesn’t fit into our laws and health care. The study had stated that perhaps if people did have their own superpowers (as they may differ from one group to another) that they would be more likely not care or to minimize the negative effects of social exclusion and rejection. The researchers had completed three different studies that relied on the measures used from the predeceasing study.

The authors had recruited a good amount of people from both genders, and had divided them into different groups. At the first study, they used measures of giving the participants superpowers of flight and invulnerability to pain and physical injury. They handed the participants a passage that gave them instructions and a scenario before they had asked them questions....

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... 75% of the nation is begging for his head to be severed and placed on a pike (25% assuming they’re 13 year old girls). All that hate and rejection didn’t affect him, it didn’t stop his production rate, and he kept going and made more albums. All that was caused by how loved he was by that 25% he got famous at some point whether it were the right reasons or not, they were still critical reasons for him to be publicized. And what’s better to have your own self-esteem inflated rather than being a face that everybody knew? (Along with the fact that he makes a large amount of money, etc). His fame blocked his ears from all those that hated him. It was considered to be his own superpower. Even after being deported and tossed around like a ball between the Canadian and American customs for felonies he made, he showed practically no signs of negative feedback from it.