PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Deindividuation, Gestalt Psychology, Construals
8 Dec 2012
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Social psychology: the scientific study of how individuals thoughts, feelings. and behaviours are influenced by other people. It is a field dedicated to understanding the causes and consequences of social interaction between individuals or groups. The study of how other people affect us. Social psychologists study how individuals process information about other people and how they sore this information in memory. Take the perspective of individuals in a social setting rather than focusing only on objective features of a situation social construals: how individuals personally interpret or perceive a social situation. Whatever you believe to be the other person"s motive will determine how you behave. Individuals fail to intervene because they rely on others to interpret the event. People may misinterpret the situation as a non emergent based on the inaction of others social comparison: the process of comparing ourselves to other people to make judgements about the self.
