PSYC 2003 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Social Exchange Theory, Sunk Costs, Social Dilemma
7 Apr 2017
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De nition: the study of the causes and consequences of sociality. Social in uence: how people change each other. Social cognition: how people think about each other. Intrapersonal: existing or occurring within the person or mind. Self concept, social cognition, attitudes, cognitive, dissonance, persuasion, self control. Social in uence, group dynamics, relations with others, attraction, cooperation, aggression. Women are effectively committing to potentially carry around a baby for 9 months and drastically changing behavior. Stigma on women after accepting an offer like that. We don"t randomly choose with whom we mate. Attraction is a good predictor of who we will choose. Despite preferences, people date and marry people who are close to themselves in attractiveness. Halo effect: people are perceived as more attractive tend to also be associated with more positive characteristics. Level of education, religious backgrounds, ethnicities, socioeconomic status, personality. Sternberg suggest that different strategies of loving are different ways of combing the basic building blocks of love.
