PSYC 050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ed Asner, Rod Steiger, Bacon
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A person in the world of people: self and other, part i. We have talked about capacity of human mind and how it involves dealing with physical world. We have to choose foods, navigate world, recognize objects, understand physical interactions. The most interesting aspect is our capacity to deal with other people. We are fascinated by celebs, and social lives of others. Individual differences in our social natures- there was a study. Package was given to 160 people randomly chosen in nebraska. and the people were asked to get the package to a stock broker in. No one knew him but they knew people who knew him. It took at max 6 degrees of separation. Milgram found that in half of cases, packages went through two people. Take everyone in the room, and everyone they know and connect them with a line. Some people are hubs and know a lot of people.
