Post 6 - Social Psych... it's real life

 Hello, today's theme is traveling!

Compliance

When you're traveling somewhere and need to know the direction to a place, you can ask a local there. You ask them, and they reply with the information you need. That's them complying with your request!

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Obedience

Traveling as a foreigner, you don't really know the rules or the laws there. Imagine you're in Singapore, and they prohibit you from leaving trash randomly, but you did. The police catch you and fine you for not following the rules, so you have to pay a fine - showing obedience to an authoritative figure.

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Social facilitation

You're traveling with a group of friends to a place you know very well about. Since you're the expert, they all ask you questions to where they need to eat good food. You become aroused because so many people are around you that are looking up to you, so you give very good, detailed advices to them - performing better than when someone normally just asks you where to eat.

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Group polarization

Now that group of people is eating. They were all hungry and wanted to eat something affordable because some of them didn't want to go over budget. They discuss restaurants that were advised to them and finally decided to go to a very very cheap restaurant way below what they have anticipated going before to save money - going toward a much cheaper restaurant than something just affordable for some people wanting to stay under budget.

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Reciprocity norms

Your friends had a great vacation due to your awesome bits of advice! So, to give back for your effort, they gave you a gift in return - if you helped them first, they will help you later.

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