PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stanley Milgram, Eyewitness Identification, Cognitive Dissonance
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The scientific study of how we think about, influence and relate to one another. We have a tendency to give causal explanations for someone"s behavior. Attributing behavior to persons for to situations. The tendency to overestimate the impact of personal disposition, and underestimate the impact of the situations in explaining. How we explain someone"s behavior affects how we react to it. People taking credit for success, deny responsibility for failure. A belief and feeling the predisposes a person to respond in a particular way to objects, other people, and events. Not only do people stand for what they believe in (attitude), they start believing in what they stand for. Foot-to-the-door phenomenon: the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request. Cognitive dissonance theory: to relieve ourselves of this tension, we bring our attitudes closer to our actions (festinger, 1957).
