SOP 3004 Lecture Notes - Condom, Scientific Method, List Of Fables Characters
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Notes for social psychology: the scientific study of how people"s thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by the actual or imagined presence of others. Primary thesis of social psychology: human social thought and social behavior is governed heavily by the situation in which the thoughts and behaviors occur. Secondary these of social psych: the power of situational forces is far greater than people tend to think it is. Patty hurst kidnapping: social thought and social behavior often do not fit into commonsense theories. The importance of empiricism: how we study social psychology. Day after day they discover that people"s behavior is pretty much what you"d expect. - cullen murphy. The hindsight bias: the tendency to overestimate, after learning an outcome, one"s ability to have foreseen the outcome, outcomes seem obvious after the fact, fischoff (1975) War between british and gurkas in india: teigen (1986)
