12 Angry Men-Social Psych Review - 1437 Words

One Belligerent Room There are few examples of group dynamics as complete and realistic as the film Twelve Angry Men. Recently I was required to view this film and had at first great reservations about its value as an educational tool, but soon after the opening credits rolled by and the deliberations began to take place I was caught up in the story. This film was not only entertaining, but it also serves as a great example of many of the theories and aspects of social psychology. Including too many concepts to name, the film touched on several very important theories: process loss in group decisions, groupthink, the fatal attribution error (FAE), normative social influence, and social norms. One of the first concepts to be seen in†¦show more content†¦Even if the evidence does not necessarily add up the man is still a liar and his type does not deserve to be free. Only a few jurors fight this error of judgment and remind the others that his rough upbringing may have had something to do with his past convictions and that this situation did not necessarily warrant violence toward his father. Another aspect of social psychology that is demonstrated by the characters in the film is that of social roles and the need to follow them. Social norms are rules that explain how persons are expected to behave in certain situations; if a social norm is rebelled against the results are often extreme. This is seen incredibly easily in how well the words of the jurors mirror the actions of participants in a 1951 study by Schacter. In the psychological study on norm breaking, a confederate consistently went against the group in a discussion on the possible sentencing of an imaginary juvenile delinquent. The group first tried to bring the deviant back to the group norm and after no success proceeded to ignore and then punish him for his dissenting belief. 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