PS270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: Belief Perseverance, Dispositional Attribution, Condom
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Social psychology: the scientific studies of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another (human vs. human). Also, looks at how individuals in general view and affect one another. Social psychology tends to be more individualistic in its content and more experimental in its method than sociology (the study of people in groups and societies). A social psychology reference: behavior is a function of the person and the situation . When someone"s behavior is constant, we usually refer to it as his or her personality. Thinking, memory, and attitudes all operate on two levels: conscious and deliberate and the other unconscious and automate. Situation matters, your culture helps define your situation. Our behavior is shaped by external forces hazel markus. Ex, our attitudes towards poor people influence our willingness to support them. We inherit human nature dispositions and behave the way we do because that helped our ancestors survive and reproduce.
