PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Polysexuality, Speed Dating, Extraversion And Introversion
1 Sep 2016
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Power corrupts (e. g. stanford prison experiment: feels good social acceptance/promotion, changes relationships between people, alters attention to rewards and punishment. Increases automatic processing: decreases inhibitions, increases approach behavior. Social skills, extraversion, communication, confidence -> key predictors. Gender -> influenced by biological, sociocultural, and cognitive factors. Androgyny high degree of both feminine & masculine traits. Stereotypic advertisements -> attitudes conformity; decreases confidence in performance tasks. Belief in god, religious activity -> wage gap. Controlling for: age, education, martial status, occupation, time in workforce. 24% of men lie to women, only 3% to men. Privileged infor to men: i"m not supposed to tell you this, but . Significantly less women (even fewer men) call themselves feminist . Sometimes explained by other variables (e. g. status & power) At a young age, boys are made more physical while girls pay attention. Reality: men are more collectively focused; women more dyadically focused. Women: face to face ; emotional disclosure, friend pairing.
