SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Influence, Gestalt Psychology, Construals
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Fundamental attribution error the tendency to overestimate the extent to which people"s behavior stems from internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational factors. Coop people playing wsg and cg, and comp people playing wsg and cg. The name of the game, conveyed strong social norms about what kind of behavior was appropriate in this situation: this changed how competitive people played, their personality didn"t play much of a role. This is a complex situation, depends on thoughts and feelings. Meaning construed depends on who asked the question (close friend, acquaintance, auto salesman) Gestalt psychology- holds that we should study the subjective way in which an object appears in peoples minds (the gestalt, or whole), rather than the way in which the objective physical attributes of the object combine. How do people reach subjective impressions of the world. 2 primary motives: the need to be accurate, the need to feel good about ourselves.
