PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Collectivism
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What is social psychology: the scientific psychological study of how and why we humans think about, react to, and behave as we do in our interactions with other human beings. Personality: consistency over time and situations: across time and situations, extraverts tend to be more sociable, energetic, and outgoing than are introverts. Social: variability due to situations: powerful situations can override individual differences. Social cognition: flawed scientists, cognitive misers, motivated tacticians. Harry triandis - made it his life work to document social differences in cultures: western individualistic, autonomy, competence, uniqueness, analytical thinking (objects, rights, eastern collectivistic, connectedness, harmony, commonality, holistic thinking, duties and obligations. Conformity: valued in east, criticized in west, west: dependence, submission, ingratiation, lack of confidence, east: cooperative, interpersonal activity. Aggression: cultural differences greater for physical aggression. Individualistic culture aggression is greater than collectivistic culture aggression. *cultures generate independent selves that channel different experiences.
