PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Social Comparison Theory, Fundamental Attribution Error, Murder Of Kitty Genovese
29 Nov 2016
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* the study of how people influence others" behaviors, beliefs and attitudes; helps us understand why we sometimes act helpfully in the presence of some and awful in the presence of others. * social psychology is important because humans are a highly social species. * robin dunbar said that 150 is the number of most groups, and the number of people most humans are close to. * when trying to figure out who someone did something we form attributions or assigning causes to behaviors, some being internal (inside the person, such as a personality trait) or external (outside the person, such as family money issues) * error can be associated with culture; japanese and chinese seem to be less prone because they"re more likely to view issues in context than western cultures (ex. Chinese would say someone who murdered people was probably under a lot of stress whereas americans would say he was evil)
