PSY 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cognitive Dissonance, Ultimatum Game, Kin Selection
Document Summary
Social psychology: the study of the causes and consequences of sociality. Support and being able to live and interact with people affects your immune system and general well-being. Agressions: behavior whose purpose is to harm another. Agressions and gender: behavior aimed at harming or injuring others. Instrumental aggression is motivated by the desire to obtain a concrete goal, such as gaining possession of a peer"s toy. Relational aggression harms others by damaging their peer relationships tries to affect where someone is on the social hierarchy (in a mean and manipulative way) Alturism: behavior that benefits another without benefitting oneself. Reciprocal alturism: behavior that benefits another with the expectation that those benefits will be returned in the future. Kin selection: the process by which evolution selects for individuals who cooperate with their relatives. Group: a collection of people who have something in common that distinguishes them from others. Favoritism towards other members in the group.
