Psychology 2070A/B Chapter 1-5: Psychology 2070 Chapter 1-5
10 Mar 2014
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Kurt lewin, father of modern experimental social psychology: (cid:224) helped shape social psychology and directed it toward a deep interest in the exploration of causes and cures of prejudice and ethnic stereotyping, first scientist to fully realize importance of taking the perspective of people in any social situation to see how they construe (perceive, interpret, distort) the social environment. To understand effects of social situation on people, we need to understand the fundamental laws of human nature, common to all, that explain why people construe the social world the way they do ourselves the need to feel good about and the need to be accurate. Whnen people have been exposed to frightening messageds, instead of engaging in rational problem solving behaviour, most tend to reduce that fear by engaging in denial: denial stems from desire to maintain self esteem, if we are interested in changing our own or other people"s behaviour, we must first know something about these fundamental causes.
