Psychology 2070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Kurt Lewin, Social Comparison Theory, In-Group Favoritism
8 Mar 2016
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Social psychology: the scientific study of how individuals" thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by other people. It"s a scientific study thus empirical research will be described throughout the course and it will have theories that have been proposed to help us understand these empirical results. Look at cognition (thinking), affect (emotions) and behavior (most important to understand) Look at how other people affect our world, how we interpret things cognitively, how other people make us feel. We never appreciate how people really affect us, we can even have other people influence us without having to be physically present. Social construal: how individuals personally interpret or perceive a social situation. Experiment: people come in the elevator and face the rear, see how it affects innocent bystanders (conformity and group pressure) The low-ball technique (getting people interested with a low cost, and then increasing it) Social loafing (people don"t feel responsible for the group output so they slack off)
