What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
He explains about social pressure and how to manage it. Since he was a young kid, he has been already receiving so many social expectations about being an NBA athlete toward him and then those become a burden, pressure, even until he was in college and got a job in a big company that has plenty of pressure.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
He opens my eyes about social pressure. That social pressure is a bad thing, obstructing our future to become the best version of ourselves just to fit anybody’s expectations of us. But, social pressure does not always come as a bad thing, it does have positive effects on us. So that we become stronger and by that, we have the control to free ourselves from the prison of negative social pressure. He encourages us, by the existence of social pressure, we have the power to choose, and we have the power to take responsibility for that choice. Being happy is not contingent on validating our identities by what everyone else thought of us.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
It’s a video from TEDx Talks that have invited so many great speakers in their fields to give a speech.TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment, and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. And the speaker himself is a former basketball athlete, leading empowerment, coach, and social entrepreneur. So I could convince you that the video, the source, and the speaker are trustworthy.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
Honestly, I cannot really say that much whether the tone of the speaker is negative, neutral, or positive because even though he explains the bad side of social pressure, he does explain about the positive side of it. Somehow I know that the way he explains the topic is wonderful, powerful, and as the result, we can see both sides of social pressure. Social pressure is bad, yet it is also good for some reasons. And he also gives us the way how to come through it so that it would not affect us so poorly.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
The topic, social pressure is not a scientific matter that could be shown with data so we could believe it, but rather he explains and gives his strong arguments and then supports it with the fact of reality back then, reality he’s been through. And yet, he is more likely to give us support, ways how to come through it.
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Why Social Pressure Can Make You Feel Like You Don’t Belong | Vantage Point Counseling – Dallas, TX (vantagepointdallascounseling.com)
It would be so helpful for me to understand more about the topic: social pressure. That no matter the reason behind it, social pressure can have a heavy influence on how you view yourself and your life choices. Because fitting to the society might feel good for a while, but if social pressure pushes us away from who we really are, it’s surely bad.
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
Corrie Lo, the speaker, explains about social pressure more in a general scientific view such as general information about social pressure supported by some research data, everyday examples basis of social pressure around us, types of it, dangers of social pressure, and the most important thing: how to shield yourself from it.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
Because she explains more likely from a general point of view, perhaps the main purpose is introducing to us what social pressure is, types of social pressure, the dangers, and how to cope with it. So that by the information given, we could be more aware of it, or in a simple word, it could help us to gain information and awareness of social pressure. So that we could be able to come through it.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
I would like to say that you must just listen and watch other incredible videos than this because I, myself, cannot guarantee the credibility of the speaker, even tho Corrie LoGiudice, the speaker, is a life and business coach. Still, I cannot search further the truth of the title or the general information of the speaker. With only 650 subscribers and the video itself only gaining 3,272 views, I cannot say much.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
With only explaining the general information about the topic, social pressure, something that we can seek for the information easily on the internet, I could say that the tone of the speaker is considered neutral. She doesn’t give her own opinion in a strong way, just a slight few words to support the topic. Even at the end of the video, I could not see other tones except a neutral tone.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
As I already mentioned in the previous point, because the material/information given is fully a general information, the tone is more neutral with a small number of arguments. Yet, when she explains the general information about social pressure, she seems to give some data to emphasize the topic to be stronger.
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8 Tipe Tekanan Sosial (Peer Pressure) Yang Terjadi di Usia Dewasa|Glitzmedia.co
It helps me to gain some new information about the types of social pressure besides the types that are given from the video source. To know more about the types of it really helps me to gain some insight and understanding also the awareness that would be so helpful for the further project.
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
As we see together from the title, the speaker talks about how to make ourselves immune to social pressure. He talks about five ways to help ourselves to be more ready about social pressure, and too-much mind it so that life will be much easier.
Five ways to make ourselves immune to social media:
1. Write down your values, no matter small it is.
2. Build a core group of positive influences that block out the negative ones. And get supportive friends.
3. Make progress every day
4. “Make your own decision, I’ll make mine”
5. Get moving
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
Perhaps my answer is right. As I listened to the video, I then realized that we live our lives under a lot of social pressure from anyone else. Sometimes, social pressure doesn’t always come from the doubters, the haters, but the friends and the family that just don’t want us to get hurt or don’t want us to change. It’s not often the case that the person who is doubting us/pressuring us has really big persuasive amazing arguments. What often the case is we haven’t gotten clear on our own values and we actually just use them as an excuse for doubting ourselves.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
Charisma on Command is the channel of the video which has 4.93 million subscribers on Youtube. And the speaker (Charlie Houpert) himself was a consultant, and now is the co-founder of the channel itself and is running a Charisma University. Charisma on Command has a specialty in making self-improvement videos, so I could say for sure that the speaker and the source are trusted.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
As displaying a self-motivation and self-improvement video, the speaker tends to be more positive in the way he delivers the speech about the topic. He delivers it in a positive and cheerful way so that we, as the listener, could receive the message in a good way.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
Yes. every time he explains each point of the topic, he always makes great further explanations about each topic clearly, strongly, and gives explanations based on his own experience so that we can relate to it as the listener.
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How to Cope With Social Stress and Pressure (thejoint.com)
Discusses a similar topic as the video, this article would be so helpful for my further project so as to master the material of social pressure, and then further sub-topics that would come out later. Social stress is a growing problem in our world. While we once focused mainly on physical and mental health, we now have this growing social health situation. The constant pressure to fit in, an overwhelming sense of anxiety, and continually being accessible is turning us into overly stressed and unhealthy human beings.
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
The video shows us the power of peer pressure, something that happens to us every day. And in this video, the speakers show us the best explanation to understand the phenomenon by recreating the experiment in a laboratory inspired by renowned social psychologist, Solomon Asch. It is to show us the common form of mind control. They sat seven teenagers and asked each in turn to answer a very simple question. The first teenagers are confederates and they were instructed to give the wrong answer. About two-third of any group independent of age goes along, regardless of gender, background. It shows us that many smart people have made stupid decisions because social forces overwhelm their better judgment.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
It shows us the power of one. We have an innate fear of being shunned by valued groups. So when we feel like we’re the odd person out, don’t be hesitate to stifle our concerns. Just simply express them respectfully because this small dissent can provide powerful permission to the silent concern of others. We don’t have to risk being an outcast in order to test our concerns.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
The channel, formerly VitalSmarts, Crucial Learning is a channel which main purpose is to improve the world by helping people improve themselves. By combining social science research with innovative instructional design, it creates flexible learning experiences that teach proven skills for solving life’s most stubborn personal, interpersonal, and organizational problems. And the speakers, David Maxfield is the vice president of research at and development at VitalSmarts and has co-authored numerous New York Times bestsellers and Joseph Grenny is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, dynamic keynote speaker, and leading social scientist for business performance. And yes, finally I can say that both the channel and the speakers are trusted enough to give a speech about the topic.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
The speakers tend to be more neutral regardless they give simple explanations about the topic supported with an easy experiment to prove the arguments.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
Talk about the topic based on the data and real experiment, they give their best strong arguments to support their explanation about the topic. Supported by data and also an experiment adapted from an experiment that has been done before, they explain the theory in an easy to be understood.
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The Science of Social Pressure – Scientific American Blog Network
Talking about the same topic, helps me to gain some new information about the further explanation of social pressure on the term of psychological science. To know more about it really helps me to gain some insight and understanding also the awareness that would be so helpful for the further project.
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
The video discusses peer (social) pressure they’ve been through in life, starting from young ladies even until they’re getting older. Peer (social) pressure is real. Sharing their experience and perspectives on how sometimes they hard to say no to people just because they don’t want to hurt somebody’s feelings. Discomforting themselves instead of bothering somebody else. And the fact that peer pressure happens all the time. When we’re young, our peer pressure is about making us want to do things we don’t want to do. As we get older, peer (social) pressure then turns into making us feel bad about things we do or we do not do.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
They encourage us to make our ultimate goal which is to figure out how to say no and be strong to face peer (social) pressure. We could actually look at it differently and thank peer (social) pressure for teaching us to trust our intuitions. And actually, sometimes, along that line, peer pressure does help if it’s a positive thing. So the best thing to do is we gotta be around people who give us the good peer (social) pressure that makes us feel happy. If it’s something that you don’t want to do morally, something you’re not ready for, just tell them no.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
The video is part of The Real Daytime channel on Youtube with 2.36 subscribers and has already been watched by more than 253.000 people around the world with the speakers are Adrienne Houghton, Jeannie Mai, Loni Love, and Tamera Mowry-Housley who are work as artists. I think the video is trustworthy.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
The speakers’ tones seem neutral toward the subject. Why? Because they could explain it from daily real-life examples of peer pressure but also give positive encouragements on how to shield ourselves so that we will not be drawn on peer pressure.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
I love the way they deliver the topic/subject because the wide perspectives from four different people on how they share their own perspectives are so good. They share the meanings of peer pressure based on their own opinion supported by daily real-life example experience and then give positive turning back about the topic.
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Coleman, J. N., & Farrell, A. D. (2021). The influence of exposure to violence on adolescents’ physical aggression: The protective influence of peers. Journal of Adolescence, 90, 53-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.06.003
This study examined the degree to which peers can serve as a protective factor to mitigate the negative effects of exposure to violence (i.e., victimization, witnessing violence) on adolescents’ physical aggression. Findings suggest that prevention and interventions that increase positive peer influences and decrease negative peer influences may benefit adolescents by reducing risks associated with victimization.
I hope this study will help me to understand more about peer (social) pressure on both two sides, the positive side and negative side in order to make my perspective not be biased on only one side.
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
The speakers (the news presenter and the source person) talk about the pressure to conform to conventional ideas about beauty is having dangerous consequences in China particularly among women and it’s leading to increasing cases of eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, and more than 1.5 million Chinese were suffering from eating disorders. It is also because of the stigma in Chinese culture setting supported with the boomed social media influences that larger bodies are seen as less disciplined.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
The speakers especially the source person explain to us that society and also social media could give such a big impact on leading to the increased social pressure in China and affects many women to suffer eating disorders caused by social pressure.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
I would like to say that the video is trustworthy because the source person, Stephanie Ung is the founder and executive director of body banter a Hongkong-based non-profit that shares resources and information on body image and mental health. And the video is part of DW News which is a global English-language news programme from German public international broadcaster DW on Youtube channel.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
She agrees with the idea delivered by the news presenter that the effect of increased social pressure leads to rising in eating disorders in China and shares the idea of how eating disorders in China could happen affected by social pressure.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
Yes, she puts strong arguments on how social pressure on body image in China could happen started from the family and then the social expectation that slim bodies has the meaning that it is more disciplined than larger bodies.
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Marks, R. J., De Foe, A., & Collett, J. (2020). The pursuit of wellness: Social media, body image and eating disorders. Children and Youth Services Review, 119, 105659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105659
A great deal of content on SNSs promotes images of idealized bodies, healthy foods, diets, and exercise, which receive high levels of engagement. Concern has arisen that increased SNS use may be influencing mental health, contributing to body image concerns, eating disorders, and psychological distress. Further criticism has emerged that health and wellness content that promotes weight management may be based on flawed assumptions, and therefore have unintended consequences, such as recurrent cycles of weight loss and regain, chronic stress, exercise avoidance, and depression.
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
The speaker discusses social pressure especially in a community and talks about her experience about somebody’s story to move out to another community because the last community was so toxic and negative. She tells us that actually, every community has certain social pressure and when we move into a community it means we choose our own social pressure. Good social pressure and not-so-good social pressure. An example of good social pressure is when it encourages us to be a better person, to be kind, to be helpful, to be giving, and an example of not so good social pressure where it pressures us about getting married, stay working after getting married, and so on.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
When we are living in a community where we are around people who are really kind good honest people, we rise up to that level. Once again she emphasizes that when we choose our community, we choose our social pressure. It is not worth standing up for where we only do certain things just for our community just to get along. She encourages us to choose wisely our own community or when we are going to move into a new community and choose a community that has social pressure that we want to strive for and we need
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
The video is the part of Aish.com where it’s creating inspirational and meaningful original videos on all topics Jewish from spirituality, Jewish holidays to Israel, and relationships; and I couldn’t find the source of the speaker. So in conclusion, the video is not trustworthy because the channel doesn’t really relate to the topic and I think doesn’t have the right proportion to deliver the topic.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
Delivers the speech with a positive and quite neutral tone, she agrees and explains wisely about social pressure and the example toward the context that is discussing social pressure in community. She explains the topic both from two sides, the positive side and the negative side.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
I think she puts strong arguments toward the topic despite the time limitation of the video that is only about two minutes. Gives a relatable and easy-to-understand example for the explanation in the beginning, then supports it with the example of both sides, positive and negative sides, then closes the speech with wise advice toward the topic.
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Panagopoulos, C. (2011). Social pressure, surveillance and community size: Evidence from field experiments on voter turnout. Electoral Studies, 30(2), 353-357. doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2010.10.005
This article would be so helpful for me because I could understand about social pressure in the context of community, social community.
This article discusses citizens’ participation in elections, at least partly, because they perceive voting as a social norm. Norms induce compliance because individuals prefer to avoid enforcement mechanisms including social sanctions that can be activated by uncooperative behavior. The finding is that even highly-populated communities can exhibit “small world” properties that cause residents to be sensitive to social pressure.
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
The video discusses a study by the Nanyang Technological University, it surveyed over 500 Singaporeans at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and found that people who earn more are more prone to panic buying. Researchers explained that households with higher salaries usually translate to more disposable income, which means they can afford to stock up on goods. Fear emerged as the top factor that drove panic buying, followed by social pressure. Assistant Professor Yuen Kum Fai explained why people feel the need to follow suit and panic buy just to “fit in”
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
The video provides us the reality from the covid-19 pandemic situation that people feel the need to resort to panic buying to fit with their social circles. How strong social pressure influences people around us just to fit into their society. Social media is the highest influence for people to tend to do panic buying especially people with higher incomes who of course can afford it. They are more likely to pick up cues from the media, depicting the long queue on the supermarket that then resulting potential essential urgency to panic buying. Social pressure from the panic buying situation also resulted from our instinctual nature to mimic the behaviors of the majority. Humans tend to have this tendency of believing that the majority is making the right decision.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
The video is taken from CNA youtube channel (a Singaporean public broadcast service that provides recent news) and the main speaker of the video is an assistant professor Yuen Thum Phi from the NTU School of Civil and Environmental Engineering so based on the source and the speaker I could say that the video is trustworthy.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
Because the speaker is the right person from the right study of course he could speak about the topic neutrally as the fact that he is an assistant professor who is already done the research itself.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
Supported by strong arguments and also facts from the result of the study, he explains the topic so clear and enough with strong arguments and facts and also explains the keys of the topic regarding the study that has been done related to the situation in covid-19 pandemic that resulting panic buying to people across Singapore.
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Herjanto, H., Amin, M., & Purington, E. F. (2021). Panic buying: The effect of thinking style and situational ambiguity. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 60, 102455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2021.102455
This article also discusses a similar topic as the related video and explains more about thinking style especially in relation to social pressure in action of panic buying. So I hope by reading this article, I could understand more about the topic, social pressure. This paper examines the direct effect of thinking style and situational ambiguity on the panic behavior model as well as the moderating effect of information overload. Based on the results, it was found that situational ambiguity and the judicative thinking style increase perceived risk. In turn, perceived risk and situational ambiguity were found to be responsible for generating panic buying. In contrast, executive and legislative thinking styles were found to have no significant effect on perceived risk. Finally, information overload was found to moderate the relationship between situational ambiguity and panic buying, but not the relationship between perceived risk and panic buying.