PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Solomon Asch, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Deindividuation
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Social psychology: an area of psychology that seeks to understand, explain, and predict how people(cid:495)s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the actual, Social cognition: the way in which people perceive and interpret themselves and imagined or implied presence of others others in their social world. People provide us with information about ourselves. Social comparison theory: festinger, 1954: evaluate our abilities and beliefs by comparing them with those of others, upwards or downwards, parents always think you can be a better version of yourself because others can do it. Attitudes: relatively stable and enduring evaluations of things and people: affective component: how we feel toward an object, behavioural component: how we behave toward an object, cognitive component: what we believe about an object. Affect: stereotypes beliefs about groups of people and their traits, prejudice negative feelings, discrimination harmful behaviour.
