PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Group Polarization, Milgram Experiment, Elaboration Likelihood Model
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The scienti c study of how individuals thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are in uenced by other people. Any situation where someone is affected in any way by other people. Even if this presence of other people is only imagined is relevant to social psychology. The way you act around your best friend compared to your grandma you"re the same person but because you"re around different people you react differently: abcs. Attitude about winter in canada it"s cold, winter break, etc these are beliefs. Behaviour about situations you want to hangout with your friends but don"t want to go snowboarding. Attitude and behaviours go well together easy to predict behaviours from attitudes: point of view. How do you personally interpret a social situation. Waving at your friend in a crowed room but they don"t see you: scienti c study. We need empirical evidence before we can make conclusions about how the social world works.