PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Reciprocal Altruism, Hymenoptera, Deindividuation
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Social psychology is the study of the causes and consequences of sociality. Social influence- how people change each other, and social cognition is how people understand each other. All animals must survive and reproduce, being social is one strategy for accomplishing two important goals. Four species are ultra social, hymenoptera, termites, naked mole rats, and humans. We are only one whose societies consist of genetically unrelated individuals, evolved with such big brains is to deal with complexities that large scale societies introduce. Most social has allowed species to survive. Aggression is behavior whose purpose is to harm another, a strategy used by just about every animal on the planet. Not something that animals do for its own sake but as a way of getting the resources they want. Frustration aggression hypothesis, suggests that animals aggress when and only when their goals are frustrated.
