PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Desirability Bias, Neuroimaging, Group Dynamics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Social psychology: how we think about, influence, and relate to one another, emphasis on situation rather than person. How the same person can act differently in different situations. How different people can act the same in the same situation. Social judgments: fundamental attribution error, cognitive dissonance. Attribution: attempt to explain someone"s behavior by attributing it to a cause, such as: Fundamental attribution error: we think we know something about someone"s disposition when we observe them in a particular situation, tendency to. Self vs. other judgments: when it comes to our own behavior . Less likely to blame disposition for bad acts. More likely to credit disposition for good acts. E. g. , health-concerned person who smokes: driven to reduce dissonance. Dan"s research on environment (e: many assume anti-e actions due to anti-e attitudes, however, research suggests most people have pro-e attitudes, why doesn"t dissonance result in pro-e actions, hypothesis: norms enable successful rationalization .