PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Social Inequality, Deindividuation, Verbal Behavior
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Social psychology- the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another. How typical people are in our everyday lives. At first glance, what is researched seems obvious. We have a tendency to give causal explanations for someone"s behaviour, Often by crediting either the situation or the person"s disposition, personal/dispositional-oriented or situational- oriented explanation. People take credit for success, deny responsibility for failure. Fundamental attribution error: the tendency to overestimate the impact of personal disposition and underestimate the impact of the situations in explaining the behaviours of others. When we try to attribute our own behaviour, we are much more likely to blame the situation rather than ourselves. When we tried to account for the behaviour of other people, we are biased towards dispositional- oriented explanations. Effects of attribution: how we explain someone"s behaviour affects how we read it.
