PS270 Lecture Notes - Dispositional Attribution, Illusory Correlation, Cortisol
Document Summary
Egocentric bias- on group projects etc we think we did more because things that we personally do get processed more than things that others do. Principle of scarcity: if you limit how many things are available or for how long, people want it more. Social psychology: scientific study of social behavior, of how people think about, influence and relate to one another. Subject self-selection: whenever subjects choose to be in one group or another then we can"t know for sure it is due to the experiment or innate qualities. Social behavior is biologically rooted, it helps us to be social. Culture: the enduring change in behavior, attitudes, ideas, shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. Social representations: socially shared beliefs, widely held ideas, and values including our assumptions and cultural ideologies. Our social representations help us make sense of our world.
