Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Comparison Theory, Overchoice, Thought Suppression
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Social psychology: the study of how individuals" thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by other people: other people do not need to be physically present to have an influence on us, ex. 3 ways people influence us: affect how we interpret or perceive events, behaviour occurs in a social context, ex. Looking around to see how others interpret event: affect how we feel about ourselves, affect how we behave, the presence of others can change how we act in a situation, ex. "deindividuation: released from their own inhibitions, ex. Common themes of social psychology: we construct our social reality, ex. Thinking with your heart vs your head: gut feelings are not always accurate, we have strong motivation to feel good about ourselves, violating this belief leads to attributional attempts to soothe our ego. Situations exert powerful influences on our behaviour: often we fail to recognize this, ex.