PSY 300 Week 5 Prejudice, Conformity, and Social Influence

In this assignment, you explore social psychology concepts through current news stories.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word page paper on how prejudice, discrimination, conformity and social influence can be experienced in society today.

• Describe the four different ways groups affect people.
• Define prejudice, conformity, and social influence.
• Explain in detail how prejudice and discrimination differ.
• Provide real-world examples of prejudice, conformity, and social influence, utilizing 3 or more recent (within the last 12 months) news stories.
• Describe what happened in each news story related to these concepts. Each news story could be about a different concept, or the news stories you select could involve more than one.
• Analyze how conformity and social influence were factors in what transpired in each event, identifying relevant psychological theories at work.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

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