PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Culture Of The Southern United States, Social Rejection, Walter Mischel

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 333
• Professor: Jennifer Bartz

Document Summary

Study: t-shirt: people see them as having more impact + and than others see themselves, people see them as more dominating of a conversation, correlation bt impact seen by self and impact seen by others. Everyone is overestimating on average but is accurate on relative ranking. Depend on whether the failure hits an important self definition. Tom is 5x more likely than harry to be more aggressive. But 4. 5% chance that tom will be aggressive. Harry"s chance to be aggressive is <1% Probably neither will be aggressive although tom is more likely to be aggressive than harry. Cognitive affective system theory of personality: situations reliably trigger behavioral responses, cognitive and affective units mediate the situation to behavior response. Interpersonal situations: peer approaches, peer teases, adult praises, adult warns, adult punishes. Cross situational consistency: across situation: how verbally aggressive across psych situations, better approach: look at situations *