Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Social Proof, Normative Social Influence, Cognitive Dissonance

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Social psychology studies the field of how we think about and perceive our social world (social thinking and perception), how other people influence our behaviour (social influence), and how we behave toward other people (social relations) Judgments about the causes of our own and other people"s behaviour and outcomes. Personal (people"s behaviour is caused by their characteristics) Situational (aspects of the situation that cause a behaviour) ), and consensus (how do other people respond) Fundamental attribution factor (underestimate impact of situation and overestimate role of personal factors when explaining other people"s behaviours) Self serving bias (making relatively more personal attributions for successes and more situational attributions for failures) East asians tend to hold a more holistic view of the universe than westerners (more complex views about causes of behaviours) Same underlying psychological principle (link between holistic thinking and beliefs about causality) seem to account for information seeking difference between cultures and individuals.