PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Dispositional Attribution, Foot-In-The-Door Technique, Asch Conformity Experiments

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Ordinary people who are socially isolated are more likely to become depressed, become ill and die prematurely as bad as obesity or smoking. Extended isolation can induce symptoms of psychosis. Social psychology the study of the causes and consequences of sociality. Only 4 species have become ultra-social form societies in larger numbers to divide labour and cooperate for mutual benefit. Aggression behaviour whose purpose is to harm another: hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps), termites, naked mole rats, humans, used to get resources by animals. Frustration-agression hypothesis animals aggress when and only when their goals are frustrated: cause of aggressive behaviour is negative affect. When animals feel bad, then that makes them feel bad increases aggression when you feel bad you are more likely to get pissed: aggression on hot days. Gender is the single best predictor of aggression: socialization is not the only reason for male aggression highly correlated to the presence of testosterone.