PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Social Perception, Fundamental Attribution Error, Solomon Asch
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Social psychology: branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals" thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by others. How they move, talk, gesture: people view people with baby-faced features as more honest, warm, submissive, and naive. Attribution processes: explaining behaviour: attributions: inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others" behaviour, and their own behaviour. Internal versus external attributions: internal attributions: ascribe the causes of behaviour to personal dispositions, traits, abilities, and feelings, external attributions: ascribe the causes of behaviour to situational demands and environmental constraints. Attributions for success and failure: has been found that people often focus on the stability of the causes underlying behaviour. Defensive attribution: a tendency to blame victims for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way. Close relationships: liking and loving: interpersonal attraction: positive feelings toward another.
