PSYC 361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Loafing, Group Dynamics, Scientific Method
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History of social psychology: roughly 150 years old, early founders: sigmoid freud and wilhelm wundt, prior to wwii european labs focused on personality, abnormality, senses, and memory, us labs focuse on leaning with non human animals. Kurt lewin social psychology"s pioneer: wwi soldier, social perception, fled to the u. s. before wwii, how people"s behavior changes based on group environment. Lewinian equation - behavior is a function of both personality and environment. Different perspectives: women and people of color join psychology. Social psychology values diversity: or participants: weird and generalizability, of researchers: lens. Important social psychologists: mary whiton calkins, marie phipps clark and kenneth clark, muzafer sherif, alice eagly. Social role theory: shelly taylor and susan fiske, cognitive misers, claude steele and mahzarin banaji. Is facebook related to happiness and friendship: media portrayals reinforcing stereotypes, do people think logically or intuitively, objective evidence versus gut feelings.
