PSY 202 Lecture 5: Chapter13: Social Psychology: (how others affect us)
26 Aug 2016
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Study of how people influence others" behaviour, beliefs, and attitudes. How do the people around us influence the way we think and act. We tend to think others are vulnerable to social influence but not ourselves. We tend to think that we are not effected by it but others are. Even now we are predisposed to forming interpersonal networks - this varies: some have few close friends some have lots of acquaintances. Research says that we have 150 people in our social network - that. Research says that we have 150 people in our social network - that we know pretty well. The average number of friends people have on fb is 130. Predisposed to forming intimate interpersonal networks of a particular size. Need-to-belong theory and biologically based need for interpersonal connections. It literally hurts us to be isolated or rejected. The reason why there is a number is because of our brain.
