PSYCH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Walter Cronkite, Muzafer Sherif, Normative Social Influence
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The world of social psychology: examine the human mind and human behavior from a number of angles, expands and goes beyond bevariolist, can study emotions (more internal things), and the environment. The phone conversation study (heterosexual, attractive or unattractive based solely on conversation) The pygmalion effect: positive expectations and their effects on individuals (elementary school: forming perceptions of groups, stereotypes: generalized beliefs about members of a group, can be positive, neutral, or negative (can also be accurate) The closer the person to ourselves, the more external attributions: walter cronkite = all internal, self = external, self-serving bias: the tendency to attribute personal failures to the situation, while attributing personal successes to ourselves. Example: room with smoke (1 person versus 3 people: diffusion of responsibility: feeling of less responsibility when other people are nearby/present. Example: conversation between two people while one is actually a recording having a seizure.
