PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Cognition, Psych, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
10 Jul 2020
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Evolutionary psychological theories can then be used to explain and predict gender differences in attraction, the situational factors most likely to trigger jealousy, and so on. Social psychology is currently experiencing tremendous growth in research designed to give us a better understanding and appreciation of the role of culture in all aspects of social psychology. Cross-cultural research has revealed important distinctions between the collectivist cultures (which value interdependence and social harmony) typically found in. Africa, asia, and latin america and the individualist cultures (which value independence and self-reliance) more commonly found in north america and. Alyssa fu and hazel markus (2014) in which asian-american and european- American high school students worked on a task that involved trying to make words out of scrambled letters. The researchers designed the task to be extremely difficult, and they told each student that he or she did worse than average for the school.
