PSYCH253 Lecture 1: Intro to social psych and the social self
2 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Introduction to Social Psychology
What is social psychology?
-The study of social psychology
-How people’s feelings, thoughts and behaviour are affected by the presence, opinion or
presence of other people
Text book
- Social Psychology
- Chen . Nisbelt
The social self
Principles of social psychology
-Behaviour is a joint function of attributes of the person and of the situation
-Our intuitions overestimates the influence of traits of the person and underestimate the
influence of the situation of behaviour
e.g: the phenomenon of false confession
-5 young men confessed to a rape in central park
-Michael crow was suspected to have murdered his younger sister and confessed after hours
of interrogation
-Internalized confession: he came to believe he actually committed the crime
False confessions as a product of social influence
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Kassin’s description
-Isolation
-Confrontation
-Minimization
Reconstructing the personal past
Use the current view of the past to to determine past psychological states and develop theories
of their past behaviour / state.
-implicit theories of stability and change
-Theories pf stability: Psychological construct doesn’t change
-Theories of change: you likely to change over time
Experiment 1
-Massachusetts high school students were tested to measure their attitudes towards busing to
integrate public schools
Document Summary
How people"s feelings, thoughts and behaviour are affected by the presence, opinion or presence of other people. Behaviour is a joint function of attributes of the person and of the situation. Our intuitions overestimates the in uence of traits of the person and underestimate the in uence of the situation of behaviour e. g: the phenomenon of false confession. 5 young men confessed to a rape in central park. Michael crow was suspected to have murdered his younger sister and confessed after hours of interrogation. Internalized confession: he came to believe he actually committed the crime. False confessions as a product of social in uence. Use the current view of the past to to determine past psychological states and develop theories of their past behaviour / state. Theories pf stability: psychological construct doesn"t change. Theories of change: you likely to change over time. Massachusetts high school students were tested to measure their attitudes towards busing to integrate public schools.
