PSYCH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psych, Social Cognition
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The social world exists because people need to feel connected to others. Explains why we form enduring, close relationships. In uences our construal and memory of social events. If your need to belong is satis ed, you won"t be as likely to do actions that are in the pursuit of satisfying that need (the opposite is also true) The need to feel good about ourselves. Called self-esteem (people are motivated to maintain high feelings of self- worth) People often bend the facts a bit to cast themselves in a favourable light. The need to maintain self-esteem can justify odd" behaviour like hazing rituals. One of the hallmarks of humanity is the ability to reason. The study of how people think about the social world (e. g. select, construe, and use social information) is the forte of social cognition. Social cognition often assumes people are motivated to see the world as it is, but: Limitation #1: they lack information (or are misinformed)
