PSYC 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Non-Interventionism, Stanford Prison Experiment, Abu Ghraib
23 Jan 2018
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War of the worlds: radio broadcast claiming a large alien invasion-caused a mass panic. Social psychology: the stud(cid:455) of ho(cid:449) people i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e othe(cid:396)s" (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396), (cid:271)eliefs a(cid:374)d attitudes-for both good and bad. Helps us to understand why we act helpfully and heroically in the presence of others and also why we show our worst sides and cave into group pressure. Social psychology is important for one reason: humans are highly social species. Gravitating to each other: (dunbar) 150 is the number is the approximate size of most human social groups and is as close to the average number of people that each of us knows reasonably well. The size of our cortex relative to the rest of out brain places limits on how many people with whom we can closely associate. The need to belong: according to the need-to-belong theory (baumeister & leary), humans have a biologically based need for interpersonal connections.
