12 Angry Men
Movie Analysis
12 Angry Men
The film 12 Angry Men reflects many social psychology theories. In this suspenseful movie, a jury must decide whether a murder suspect is guilty or innocent. At first, eleven out of twelve jurors vote for guilty. The movie reveals that it demonstrates social psychology theories related to group dynamics, attitude modification, and conformity.
Group dynamics
A limited group should be assigned to the juror atmosphere. "12 Angry Men" are regarded as a small group since they are a unit that actively engages in social interaction to reach a decision. They follow a less obvious path than "Angry Men," yet they are open to interpretation already talked about theories. Social loafing, social coordination, and group instability are ideas that the movie clearly illustrates.
According to the social facilitation theory, having others around disturbs performance on challenging tasks but improves performance on simple ones. This shy man, a bank manager, proves to be intelligent later in the movie, but at first, while others are watching and judging him, he struggles to come up with good, convincing answers to his fellow juror's questions. In particular, this individual loses when others investigate him, demonstrating assessment perception theory, a principle of behavior modification. The ideas of group division and groupthink are important to a study of the group dynamics in "12 Angry Men.
Conformity: Conformity is a harmful tool in the jury room setting. The impact of informational social influence and normative social influence, theories created via the study of Muzafer Sherif and Solomon, is best demonstrated in the movie "Twelve Angry Men." Individuals conform in response to informational social influence because they think that other people's perspectives on a complex situation are more relevant, other than their own, or valid. A theory called "Normative Social Influence" suggests that individual conformity due to the risk of seeming out of the ordinary. It is common for conformity brought on by informational social influence to result from judging other people's views of an unclear situation. This theory can be used to explain how the "12 Angry Men" jurors made their decisions and also the term social cognition can be used here.
Conformity is generated through social impact theory and majority influence. These theories are applicable to jury situations and have bearing on how "12 Angry Men" should be interpreted. The social impact theory outlines the individual and situational elements that lead to conformity. Strength of source is a key factor in impact theory and majority influence age, group size, norm awareness, colleagues in disagreement, immediateness of sources, ethnicity and culture.
Perception: Undoubtedly, perception of rules is a component that promotes conformity. At the time that "12 Angry Men" was being made, prejudice and stereotyping were common. The film's director and writers did a great job of using it to address this broad and cruel racism. The lack of positive feelings for African Americans in the 1950s was typical.
Stereotype and color: In deciding whether a person is guilty or innocent, the sick juror who was holding the tissue uses racism. This could have led to the emergence of a considered unfavorable racial stereotype and led to others using the defendant's color as a deciding factor. With this, the aggression factor also arises.
Attitude modification: The engaging nature of "Twelve Angry Men" is mostly a function of persuasion, which is a product of attitude. The method of changing attitudes is persuasion. The movie "Twelve Angry Men" contains both attitude and persuasion theory. Characters and story support the influence of source theory in persuasion while highlighting the central and supplementary theories of attitude change. Source and path are things that have a big impact on attitude.
