PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Benefit Shortfall, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Cognition
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Social psychology - the study of the causes and consequences of sociality. Social behavior how people interact with each other and how social behavior solves a problem that every living being faces. Social influence how people change each other and people have 3 basic motivations that make them susceptible to influence. Social cognition how people understand each other and how people use info about another person"s affiliations and actions to make judgments and to make mistakes. We (humans) are the only ultra social species whose societies consist of genetically unrelated individuals. Much of our social behavior revolves around 2 basic goals. Aggression => is behavior whose purpose is to harm another. Frustration aggression hypothesis => suggests that animals aggress when and only when their goals are frustrated. Psychologists argue that the real cause of aggressive behavior is negative affect and that the inability to reach a goal is just one of the many things that brings about the negative affect.
