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a social psychology comic by : 
Amos Tan 
Jeffrey Liew 
Lai Tze Xiuan 
Lee Cze Shing
Synopsis 
The comic stars Ted as a young boy who kept failing 
his tests. During a parent teacher meeting, Ted was 
asked to make friends with a group of smart kids. 
Pressured by them, Ted made great improvements in 
order to seek acceptance by the group. His 
improvements were praised as he became arrogantly 
smart, and actively seeks to reinforce that belief. 
Years later, Ted seeks for a job after graduating. 
He applies for a very hard technical job at a 
nuclear plant, and arrogantly decides to not study, 
believing that he will not fail. While waiting for 
his turn, another applicant stumbles out and says 
that the test is insanely hard. Ted rudely claims 
that he was just being lazy, and that he would do 
much better. Minutes later, he walks out screaming 
in anger, blaming that the test was impossible to
Primary Concepts 
1. Operant Conditioning (Positive Punishment) 
2. Motivation (Intrinsic & Extrinsic) 
3. Social Facilitation 
4. In-group Favouritism 
5. Confirmation Bias 
6. Optimistic Bias 
7. Actor-Observer Bias
Operant Conditioning
In-Group Favouritism
Social Facilitation 
& Motivation
Confirmation Bias
Optimistic Bias
Actor-Observer Bias
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Ted's social psychology comic: How group acceptance affects motivation

  • 1. a social psychology comic by : Amos Tan Jeffrey Liew Lai Tze Xiuan Lee Cze Shing
  • 2.
  • 3. Synopsis The comic stars Ted as a young boy who kept failing his tests. During a parent teacher meeting, Ted was asked to make friends with a group of smart kids. Pressured by them, Ted made great improvements in order to seek acceptance by the group. His improvements were praised as he became arrogantly smart, and actively seeks to reinforce that belief. Years later, Ted seeks for a job after graduating. He applies for a very hard technical job at a nuclear plant, and arrogantly decides to not study, believing that he will not fail. While waiting for his turn, another applicant stumbles out and says that the test is insanely hard. Ted rudely claims that he was just being lazy, and that he would do much better. Minutes later, he walks out screaming in anger, blaming that the test was impossible to
  • 4. Primary Concepts 1. Operant Conditioning (Positive Punishment) 2. Motivation (Intrinsic & Extrinsic) 3. Social Facilitation 4. In-group Favouritism 5. Confirmation Bias 6. Optimistic Bias 7. Actor-Observer Bias
  • 6.
  • 8.
  • 10.
  • 12.
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  • 16.
  • 17. End