PSYC 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Self-Justification, Fundamental Attribution Error, Baruch Spinoza
1 May 2016
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Introduction to social psychology the task is to understand and predict human behavior ex. Canadian assisting haitians, neil bauman living his own family. Stating your own opinion vs agreeing with others, or killing your children in a cult. What is social psychology? the heart of social psychology is social influence. Advertisements try to get people to buy things. The power of social interpretation social psychology is distinct from anthropology and sociology. It studies how people are influenced by their interpretations or construal: the way people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world. Ex a murder trial- final verdict relies on the jury. Oj not guilty even though there was dna evidence. We always think the other side is biased, and your side is objective. We test assumption, guesses, and ideas systematically, and empirically. Hard because we are trying to predict the behavior of sophisticated organisms. Can be so oversimplified that they don"t learn from their mistakes, example cults and.
