PSY 504 Chapter Notes -Hindsight Bias, Social Representation, Social Comparison Theory
22 Nov 2012
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Social psychology: a science that studies the influences of our situations, with special attention to how we view and affect one another. The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. We construct our social reality we like to attribute behaviour to a cause or explanation. Dual processing conscious and subconscious intuition both powerful and perilous as it can often be wrong. (ex. We are social animals respond to our immediate contexts and may be victims of circumstance in our behaviours. (ex. Internal forces and attitudes also matter in our decisions. Our biology predisposes us to behave in certain ways. Social neuroscience: an integration of biological and social perspectives that explores the neural and psychological bases of social and emotional behaviours. We desire to fit in with others, and when we are excluded our self-esteem drops. Self-esteem a reading of how accepted we feel by others. Social psychology reflects the values of the times:
