PSY 301 Lecture Notes - Attractor
20 Aug 2013
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Social physics involves where people live and where people feel comfortable. Published articles and books of how people in different communities would be related to one another. Women tend to move around less but generally people tend to go to the same place. Idea of attractors may be things that are appealing to you and attract you to a certain space. More people close to the exits in classrooms. If the class isn"t full, you can get an idea of how the teacher is. Requires individual and the attractor they"re attracted to, and the force that brings them together. The closer it is, the greater the attraction. Mass = attractive force: status, attractiveness, wealth, power. Groups of lower status people are fairly unstable if they"re talking to one another. A high status person doesn"t move around much, but can attract people making it stable. The higher the status, the less the person moves.
