PSYC 2060U Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fundamental Attribution Error, Cognitive Dissonance, Social Influence
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Study of how the real or imaginary presence of other people influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions: example: if you think people are looking at you, this can impact your behaviors. We cannot survive in isolation: children are dependent, loneliness and depression. Throughout your life, you will be around others: psychologist study our behaviors in different social situations = explains why people act differently in different situations. When something unexpectedly or negatively happens: a relationship dissolves, a friend is unhappy, you receive a bad grade, you are not hired for a job. Most of try to understand and explain why these things happen. Found in the western side, less in eastern cultures. The tendency to: underestimate the role of situations when we explain someone else"s behavior, overestimate the role of dispositions. Example: you notice a new student who you never noticed before who is tripping and stumbling. You could assume that they were clumsy = this explaining is disposition .
