Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Carbon Footprint, Iphone 6, Social Loafing

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: James M Olson

Document Summary

Humans are incredibly social, depend on other people for protection, Very complex social animal, complex social environments caring and love. The low-ball technique: involves getting people interested with a low price/cost and then raising it: often very successful, e. g. Why did you buy that iphone 6 even though it turned out to. Social loafing: the idea that people don"t feel responsible for the group. The false hope syndrome: involves people failing to appreciate the output, so they slack of number of things that can go wrong cost more than you expected: always underestimate how long something will take, planning fallacy, e. g. Why do you keep making the same new year"s resolution year after year. The greatest threats to humanity require social psychological solutions. War: we need to learn how to resolve conflicts and how to compromise: war has everything to do with social psychology, not technology, learn to compromise and live in better relationships with others reduce our carbon footprint.