Psychology 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Solomon Asch, Confabulation, Cockroach

• School: Harvard University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 15
• Professor: Joshua Greene

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Lecture 2: definition, social psychology, an attempt to understand and explain how the thought, feeling, and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others . Leads to cycles across generations max and sadie peaks and drops and return to peaks. The person is a mean person, the person is racist/sexist/elitist, the person is competitive (person explanations) The person was in a hurry, the person misheard something you said, you remind this person of someone who once hurt him/her (situation explanations) We overestimate person explanations over situation explanations. Solomon asch line length with a group of subjects: confederates give the obviously wrong answer sequentially until the subject is up, people conform quite frequently, but, one dissenter leads to much less conformity than unanimous majority. Kassin & kiechel alt key: participant falsely accused of ruining experiment by pressing alt key, situational variables made an enormous difference. Sterilized cockroach was dipped into orange juice no way.