Psychology › Section L · Social psychology › Topic L.2
Self-presentation and social roles
You act differently in a job interview, at a family meal and in a group chat, and that is normal. Roles, norms and scripts tell us how to perform in each setting, and one famous study claimed they can even turn people cruel.
In this topic
- Life as a series of performances
- Impression management and self-monitoring
- Social roles
- Social norms
- Scripts
- The Stanford prison experiment: the classic account
- The Stanford prison experiment: what the critiques found
- Worked example: reading a new situation
- Worked example: weighing the prison study as evidence
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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