PSY220H5 Chapter 1: Chapter 1
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Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think about influence and relate to. Chapter 1 one another it is the scientific study of: social thinking. Our attitudes judgements we make: social influence. Prejudice first social psychology experiment was done in 1898 first social psychology text in 1900. Social psychology developed as it is now in 1930"s. Our social behaviour varies not just with the objective situation, but with how we construe it. Most people would be cruel if they faced enough pressure telling them to do so. All these questions deal with social psychology, that is with how people view and affect one another: social psychologists study attitudes and beliefs, conformity and independence, love and hate. What are the major themes of social psychology. We humans have an irresistible urge to explain behaviour, to attribute it to some cause, and therefore, to make it seem orderly, predictable, and controllable.
