L33 Psych 100B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12.2: Daniel Batson, Monoamine Oxidase, Robert Cialdini
24 Nov 2016
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Social psychology: the study of how people influence other people"s thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sec 12. 2 when do people harm or help others: belonging to a group can lead to altruism and generosity. People can learn to be aggressive through observation (bobo doll) Likely when people are socially rejected --> evolutionarily, exclusion meant death so even. Heat: more crimes in summer and hotter regions. Involve negative emotions --> may be because regions of the brain associated with now, defense mechanisms are triggered when an individual is excluded emotional states can disrupt the functioning of regions controlling behavior: biological factors. Serotonin is important in controlling aggressive behavior; altered levels increase the amygdala response to threat and interfere with the prefrontal cortex"s control over aggressive impulses. Anger is associated predominantly with the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex. When boys reach puberty, they become more aggressive because their testosterone levels increase tenfold.
