PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Deindividuation, Groupthink, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Social psychology: the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another. Social thinking: attributing behaviors to persons or to situations. Fundamental attribution error: tendency for observers, when analyzing another"s behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition. Jones and harris subjects serves as debaters in discussion of us attitudes towards cuba and castro. in full view of other debaters, subjects randomly assigned to read aloud debate speeches that were either pro-cuba or anti-castro. Then there other debaters rate speech readers" true attitudes toward. Attributions differ: some people blamed the new orleans residents for not evacuating before katrina. Others attributed their interaction to the situation to their not having transportation. Attitude: feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people and events. Foot-in-the-door: people have first agreed to a small request then comply later with a larger request.
