Social Psychology

Scenario: Tweeters are more likely to share a tweet if it already has a high number of retweets, especially if the people they follow have also made retweets of the same posts.

6a: Identify and provide an explanation of the type of conformity that best represents this action.

6b: Provide a social media example of how this type of conformity can be harmful.

Scenario: Atasha is shy and quiet, but she is an avid twitter user. She does not use her own photograph and her handle is a random name. On twitter, Atasha feels at ease sharing and commenting on tweets, even when her comments are controversial. She says, “social media is the best thing to ever happen to me, nobody knows who I am?”.

6c: Identify and provide an explanation of the social psychology concept that Atasha’s behaviour and comment BESTrepresents.

6d: Provide one (1) social media example of a negative implication of this type of behaviour.