PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Implicit-Association Test, Authoritarianism, Confirmation Bias

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 202
• Professor: Meagan Mackenzie

Document Summary

Study of how people inluence others" behaviour, beliefs, and aitudes. We tend to think others are vulnerable to social inluence but not ourselves. Predisposed to forming inimate interpersonal networks of a paricular size. Need-to-belong theory and biologically based need for interpersonal connecions. It literally hurts us to be isolated or rejected. Most social inluence processes are ad