PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Hot Sauce, Terror Management Theory, Mortality Salience

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Mark Baldwin

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Psyc 215 lecture 23 existential approach. E. g. consider evaluation of to others and of self, and self-regulation, according to social standards and norms. Wake up in the morning, eat, get dressed, shower etc. How we live are lives is really following a culturally-decided general structure. Culture encourages and takes care of social needs. The existential approach in social psychology: human beings have certain cognitive abilities. >100 years ago people might not have had the choices of what to do so they didn"t think of it. Ability to consider all these possibilities leads us to question our existence. Argument isn"t that this is always on our mind all the time, but that they come to mind at certain moments. Sunday afternoon and nothing is going on, can feel kind of lonely, meaningless. >call friends, make plans, try to feel better. Absurdity rises to the surface at certain moments, caused by triggers: death sit and think week, 20 years from.