PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Photocopier, Sick Building Syndrome, Reproductive Synchrony
16 May 2012
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Whenever you will be doing something a little different from the norm, chances are people will ask why. This is a mild implicit attack, and we only do it when someone does something other than what people expect you to do. Implicit attacks on your position occur when you go against the norm of the group. You would not start dancing because someone else does, but if you look up chances are others will too. This is because sometimes behaviour implies that someone else knows something that you do not. So sometimes conformity has an informative value (we are doing this for information value). Smoking is something that often begins in late teens to early adulthood. Smoking behaviour often occurs because of what people are doing around you. Chances are that your first experiences with sex was socially influenced as well.
