PSY BEH 104S Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Faith Healing, Safe Sex, Statistical Hypothesis Testing

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology and Social Behavior
• Course: PSY BEH 104S
• Professor: Paul Piff

Document Summary

Some social psychologists contribute to the solution of social problems. Looked at social media; a lot for service members who come back from duty don"t do very well, high suicide rates. Social media could be used to help, tool targets certain phrases and such that imply suicide or something to get the help they need. Social psychological theories about human behavior have been applied to a range of issues and problems. Unhealthy habits like diet and substance abuse. Charismatic leader - extremely interested in leaders of history, why they are good and bad . People"s temple - he was very interested in the church, liked to preach. Very much an up and coming leader in indianapolis. He would call people on stage to be healed. Jones appointed director of human rights commission cancer, although it was never really cancer of course. Very welcoming to people, asked people to attend their church and people tended to gravitate toward his church ceremonies.