PSYC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deindividuation, Construals, Psych
17 Oct 2020
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Social psychology: scientific study of how individuals thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influenced by other people. People can influence us without being physically present (quebec separatist movement causes anxiety without actually happening) Social scientists study memory, emotions and explaining social behaviours. Sometimes its more important to know how an individual perceives a situation rather than the settings objective features. Social construals: how individuals personally interpret a social situation. How other people affect us science involves collecting data to test predictions. How others affect how we interpret events. Other people affect how we feel about ourselves. Social comparison: comparing ourselves to other people. Deindividuation people are unaccountable for their actions when in a large group. Mullen 1986 showed larger lynch mobs was correlated with higher violence. Hindsight bias tendency to think that a known outcome was obvious. Applying social psychological knowledge to everyday life. Social psychology"s connection to other areas of psych. Personality psychology traits that help explain behaviour.
