PSYC 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mass Hysteria, Social Isolation, Caving
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Gravitating to each other to a point: 150 is the universal magic number, dunbar is probably right that our highly social brains are predisposed to forming intimate interpersonal networks that are large but only so large. Social cognition: we often look to faces of other people as cues for how to react. The fundamental attribution error: attribution: process of assigning causes to behaviour. Evidence for the fundamental attribution error: fo(cid:396)got to take the situatio(cid:374) i(cid:374)to a(cid:272)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)t (cid:449)he(cid:374) e(cid:448)aluati(cid:374)g de(cid:271)ate(cid:396)s" attitudes (cid:449)he(cid:374) put on the spot. Japanese and chinese people seem to be less so affected: opposite with north american students. Monday feb 27th: conformity: tendency of people to alter their behaviours as a result of group pressure. I(cid:374)(cid:448)ites pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ipa(cid:374)ts to a (cid:862)study of pe(cid:396)(cid:272)eptual judge(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts(cid:863) aski(cid:374)g (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h of the 3 lines given resemble another picture: results 75% conformed to the incorrect norm on at least one of the 12 trials,
