PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Decision-Making, Ovulation, Group Polarization

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

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Is the branch of psyc concerned with the way individuals" thoughts, feelings, Study"s how people are affected by the actual, imagined, or implied, presence and behaviors are influenced by others. It deals with an examination of how structures and processes of the brain are associated with social phenomena such as prejudice and stereotyping. Studies behavior in a social context and this interest is understanding of others. individual behavior should be readily apparent in our first section, on person perception. Seven broad topics: person perception, attribution process, interpersonal attractions, attitudes, conformity and obedience, behavior in groups, social neuroscience. Is the process of forming impressions of others. Although attractive people do tend to have more friends and better social skills overall. We assume there is a correlati9on before because. Extremely attractive people are vastly overrepresented in the entertainment media, where they are mostly portrayed in a highly favorable light.