PS102 Lecture Notes - Embezzlement, Word Association
Document Summary
People say they would act out and help others when in reality they wouldn"t. Our reality is to a great extent the function of our social construction. The prison study argue that your role that you play superseded morality: the situation has such power it transcends personality traits. Trying to understand neurological cause for aggression or violence. We construct our social realties by attribution cause to the situation or individual. Biological sub strains for biological, psychological and social behaviors. Values are very important and major themes in social psychology. Self turn to the self in social context. Social situations affect awareness, and sensitivity: being a distinct minority can be interesting, makes you more aware of who you are, gives you a different perspective. Self-interests affect social behaviors: when fighting with a spouse, most people blame others, when things go well we attribute joy to ourselves. Out of this we know our own self concerns motivate our behaviors.
