PSYC 3430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Abraham Maslow, Evolutionary Psychology, Ageism
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Inclusion and exclusion - the impact of being excluded. Examine how viewing oneself as a member of a group has consequence. Baumeister & leary (1995) - all humans have a pervasive drive to form and maintain lasting positive and impactful interpersonal relationships (social, cognitive, biological) They believe that it is innate or have social groups. Believes that when groups are not a part of our life anymore, it may render us incapacitated - that you cannot think or act the same way. Just like not having food or shelter will eventually incapacitate you. Only until recently have people started looking at social pain - we looked at physical pain - and we looked at brain networks and neural networks. When people feel social or emotional pain - the neural network is almost the same as physical pain. Evolutionary theory ageism that some group behaviours may be rooted in physiological processes.