PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Reciprocal Altruism, Benefit Shortfall, Social Influence
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Social psychology: the study of the causes and consequences of sociality. Social behavior: how people interact with each other. Social influence: how people change each other. Social cognition: how people understand each other; people use info about another person"s affiliations and actions to make judgments and to make mistakes. Aggression: behavior whose purpose is to harm another. Frustration-aggression hypothesis: animals aggress when and only when their goals are frustrated (i. e for food) Scientists argue that real cause of aggressions is negative effect: inability to reach goal, have something happen to them that they don"t like (= electric shock, heat, bad odour etc. ) Men more aggressive than women because of high levels of testosterone (especially in young men) Testosterone: promotes aggression, makes people concerned with their status, power, and confidence, purposeful walk, high chin posture, slow to detect angry faces result of high self-esteem.
