PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Baby Talk, Sexual Jealousy, Mate Choice

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

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Social psychology can be defined as the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors in social situations. Study situations in which people exert influence over one another, as well as the ways people respond to influence attempts of various kinds. Personality psych is a close cousin of social psych, but it emphasizes individual differences in behavior rather than in social situations. Sociology is the study of behavior of people in the aggregate sociologists study institutions, subgroups, bureaucracies, mass movements, and changes in the demographic characteristics of populations (e. g. age, gender, socioeconomic status) Hannah arendt (1963) released a controversial book eichmann in jerusalem which describes the trial of a notorious architect of hitler"s plan to exterminate jews during. Ww2 her main message was that any one of us is capable of performing acts of brutality, and research has supported her unorthodox views. Jurt lewis, the founder of modern social psychology, was a jewish berliner who fled nazi.