The behavior of the four Los Angeles police officers, who were videotaped beating unarmed Rodney King in the spring of 1991, best illustrates the possible effects of

Which of the following is likely to occur under conditions of deindividuation?

After an exciting soccer game in which the home team loses, a crowd of fans throws garbage and begins to tear up the field. This behavior is best understood in terms of

People are more likely to bait a person to jump off a bridge when it is dark and

In his report on lynch mobs, Brian Mullen noted that the bigger the mob, the more its members ______ and become willing to commit atrocities, such as burning, lacerating, or dismembering the victim.

Philip Zimbardo speculated that the mere immensity of crowded cities produces anonymity and thus norms that permit

Zimbardo explained the greater vandalism of an abandoned car left in New York than one left in Palo Alto, California in terms of the greater ___________ of the large city.

Zimbardo reported that women who were masked and hooded in KKK-style hoods and robes tended to _____ than women who were visible and wore name tags.

On Halloween night, Diener and colleagues conducted a study of trick-or-treat theft at homes scattered throughout the Seattle area. Given a chance to steal candy, the children who were _____ were most likely to commit transgressions.

Based on research cited in the text, who is most likely to honk aggressively at someone stopped at a green light?

In a study at the University of Georgia, women who donned white nurses' uniforms and were made anonymous became _____ than when their names and personal identities were emphasized.

Which of the following circumstances contributes to people becoming deindividuated?

Compared to self-aware people, deindividuated people are

Which of the following pairs are most clearly opposites?

______ is the other side of the coin from deindividuation.

People who are made self-aware, by acting in front of a mirror or TV camera, for example, have been found to

Circumstances that have the same effects as ______ will increase deindividuation.

Given the relationship between self-awareness and deindividuation, the parting advice of a parent to a teenager going to a party might well be, “have fun, and ______.”

A loss of both self-awareness and evaluation apprehension can lead to

“It was such an exciting game,” your friend insists. “We were all shouting and clapping together, everyone was in sync. When our team won, I realized I was jumping up and down, screaming, right along with everyone else. I don't know what got into me!” Your friend's reactions best illustrate the process of

A group has the power to arouse its members and to render them unidentifiable.

Cultures whose warriors wear depersonalized uniforms, masks, or face paint are also those cultures that brutalize their enemies.

Being physically anonymous always leads to the expression of our worst impulses.

Uniforms, whether white or black, have the same deindividuating effects.

Deindividuating experiences tend to disconnect behavior from attitudes.