PSYC 308 Chapter 1: Ch. 1 Readings
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Social psychology can be defined as the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations. Abu graihab, zimbardo and colleagues at standford prison experiment. Because of the situation you put people in. Personality psychology is a close cousin of social psychology, but it emphasizes individual differences in behavior rather than the social situation. Per sonality psychologists try to find a consistent pattern in the way a person behaves across situations an individual"s position on a trait dimension. Social psychologists would examine the general situation at abu ghraib, in which orders were not clear but the guards were pressured to soften up the prisoners to get information about other insurgents and future attacks. Study how people perceive, think about and remember aspects of the world -they study are usually social, such as social behavior and perceptions of other people. study of behavior of people in the aggregate.
