PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Nonverbal Communication, Self-Perception Theory, Stanford Prison Experiment
23 Nov 2017
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Seeks to understand, explain, and predict how people"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. It is not so much the kind of person a man is, as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act (milgram, 2004) Set of beliefs, values and attitudes shared by most members of a community. A way a person identifies himself or herself. Individualist cultures - those in which individual goals and wishes are prized above duty to and relations with others. Collectivist cultures - those in which harmony with one"s group is prized above individual goals and wishes. Changes in self and self-identity with collectivism in different situations, individualist stay themselves. Individualist will wait 30min, collectivist will wait up to 2 hours for someone who is late. Sociocultural perspective suggest that we would be well advised to: Relatively stable and enduring evaluations of things and people.
