PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Judith Guest, Normative Social Influence
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Social psychology: concerned with the way individuals" thoughts, feeling, and behaviors are inluenced by others. Big ideas: power of the situaion, obedience to authority is remarkable, cogniive dissonance explains so much, conformity is everywhere (even in non-conformist groups, the roles we take on afect our behavior, people have in-group bias. How do people think in social situaions? (select, interpret, remember, and use social informaion?) Person percepion: physical atraciveness: powerful social cue. Langlois et al (2000) thought to be more socially skilled, beter adjusted: self-fulling prophecy. Social cogniion involves thinking about others, including when they engage in doing things that are unexpected: 1. Does his absenteeism signify illness, laziness, or too many classes: 2. Was the horror of 9/11 the work of crazed evil people or ordinary people corrupted by indoctrinaion. Self-esteem: posiive illusions: posiive views of ourselves that are not necessarily rooted in reality.
