1006 Lecture Notes - Contact Hypothesis, Stanford Prison Experiment, Submersed
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Social psychology: the study of how people"s thoughts, feelings and behaviours influence, and are influenced by the behaviour of others, social cognition. Social cues good at predicting human behaviour: social influence. Who you are how you define yourself. How you relate to other people in a social construct: self-esteem. Self-value - value yourself as an important individual. Social comparison: temporal comparison (mastery sports psych) Comparing yourself now / 2 years ago: social comparison. Comparing yourself now to someone else now. Depends who you compare yourself to => reference group: relative deprivation. Relative to people better than you , you"re deprived => upward social comparison. Comparing yourself to people who aren"t socially equal . Our beliefs about the groups to which we belong: self-schema. Schema de toi-m me includes social identity: schemas in social perception. First impressions grows into ideas/perception of people. Assimilation: attach newly learned traits(good) onto someone"s schema.
