PSYC 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Everytime, Contact Hypothesis, Social Loafing
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One exam question over each handout on bb. The area of psychology that focuses on how people think about other people, interact in relationships and groups, and are affected by their relationships with others. Social relationships serve a basic biological need: depending on cooperative effort to survive, ex q: When u get physically injured, ur brain registered the injury. Other part of brain registers emotional pain. When u are socially ridiculed, it has same effect as physical pain. Being socially rejected, kicked out of friend group, laughed at same effect as being beat up. How we think of each other, how we form attitudes about each other. An explanation for the cause of an event or behavior. Involve judgements that we are very quick to make. Attributions affect how one perceives and treats the self and others. I did a good job because i"m smart. Disposition: part of your personality or coming from within(internal)
