PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fundamental Attribution Error, Social Perception, Victim Blaming

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gordon Anderson

Document Summary

Social psychology: is the branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals" thoughts, feelings and behaviours are shaped by others. Social psychologists study how people are afected by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others. Don"t just study interacions with other people but they oten study individual behaviour in a social context: person percepion: forming impressions of other"s: Person percepion: the process of forming impressions of others. Impressions are oten inaccurate because of bias"s in person percepion. Good looking people command more of our atenion. Atracive people tend to be seen as more sociable, friendly, warm and well-adjusted than those who are less atracive. Litle correlaion actually exists between atraciveness and personality traits, although they have more friends and more social skills. Our percepion is swayed by our desire to bond with atracive people. Atracive people tend to land beter jobs and earn higher salaries. People can guess sexual orientaion prety accurately from watching a video.