PSYC 2107 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hindsight Bias, Informed Consent, Demand Characteristics
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Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think about, influence and relate to one another. The study of social thinking, social, and social relationships. Concepts behind social psychology: we construct our social reality. Attitudes shape and are shaped by behavior: social influences shape behavior. Dispositions shape behavior: social behavior is also biological behavior. Feelings and actions toward people are sometimes negative and sometimes positive. Our social are intuitions shape fears, impressions and relationships. We trust our memories more than we should. Example: he didn"t actually threaten me, but i perceived him as a threat. We speak and think in words we learned from others. We long to connect, to belong and to be well thought of. The power of a social situation leads us to act contrary to our expressed attitudes. We carry the genes of those whose traits enabled then to survive and reproduce. (survival of the fittest).
