PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Milgram Experiment, Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, Collectivism
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Social psychology- definition: the study of how people influence others" behaviour, beliefs, and attitudes, helps us understand why many forms of social influence are so powerful. Social psychology theories: need to belong theory, humans have biologically based need for interpersonal connections, even the threat of social isolation can promote unhealthy behaviour and compromise iq scores, schacter social exclusion study of 5 males (lasted. 20min- 8days: social exclusion (cid:498)hurts(cid:499, activates the s ame brain areas as physical pain (cingulate cortex, social exclusion can lead to unhealthy behaviours, evolutionary factors, social influence processes (conformity, obedience) generally serve us well, unless accepted unquestioningly, ex. The presence of others: social facilitation/disruption, enhancement of easy tasks, or disruption of difficult ones, elicited by the presence of others. Social comparisons: social comparison theory, we evaluate our beliefs, attitudes, and abilities by comparing ourselves to others, most likely to occur under ambiguous situations (ex.
