PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Sick Building Syndrome, Ellen Langer, Political Campaign
22 Apr 2013
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Marcus in about a boy when says i love you to his mom. A walk to remember teasing girl who is very conservative. Because we are social organisms, what promotes social cohesion, is everyone doing the same thing. So when people do things we do, we are comfortable with that. When conforming/assimilating we are comfy, if not conforming we are not comfortable. So we punish people making us feel uncomfortable. Premium on being in a group (being social, central to sense of self/coherence/safety), then anything indicating the group is threatened, we react negatively. Our book says these individuals in these clips have a sense of group which is threatened if too many people act differently. So when someone acts different, we punish them through ridicule or exclusion. People ask why do something against the norm. It s weird: ex: have kids, won t ask why.
