PSYC-2400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Safe Sex, Breakfast Cereal, Hazing
9 Dec 2013
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Chapter 1: introduction to social psychology 18/09/2013 10:07:00 am. We first think of direct attempts at persuasion (where one person tries to change another person"s behaviour) advertising, peer- pressure, bully threatening someone for personal gain. To social psychologists, it is a broader term that encompasses thought, feeling, overt acts etc. We are influenced by the presence of other people even when we are not being directly persuaded. Anthropology and sociology are also interested in the influence of social environment on people, however social psych is distinct due to it being concerned with how people are influenced by their construal of their social environment. Murder trial: hard evidence (dna, weapon, etc. ) should be a deciding factor in guilt, but the jury might construe the evidence in a non-objective way: oj simpson trial: hard evidence, not guilty, larry fischer trial: hard evidence, guilty. We could ask them, but people are not always aware of the origins of their own responses.
