Sociology 2233 : Social Psychology Textbook Notes.docx

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Social psychology: scientific study of the way in which people"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people: social influence: direct attempts at persuasion to deliberately change a persons behaviour. In the oj simpson trial, hair and dna was presented but the jury still decided that simpson was not guilty of murdering his wife and her friend. Na ve realism: lee ross created this term, the conviction all of us have that we perceive things as they really are . We believe other reasonable people see things the way we do: example: israeli"s and palestinians recognize that they both view things differently but refuse to come to a compromise, fearing that the other side will benefit more. Information is gathered empirically and systematically rather than using folk wisdom (common sense, opinions etc. ) Experiments: social psychologists first create hypotheses, performs experiments to test hypotheses about the nature of the social world.

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