PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Deindividuation, Stereotype Threat, Social Loafing

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

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Social psyc: according to psychologists, nothing wrong w/ abu ghraib guards; normal people in overwhelming situations. Stanford study, guards/prisoners showed speed at which normal students social roles. Social psyc: how we influence thoughts, feelings, actions. Humans not flawed/evil, distinct individuals influenced by social context. Nonverbal actions/expressions affect first impressions: nonverbal behavior (body language): facial expressions, gestures, mannerisms, movements by which one communicates. Important nonverbal cue is gait: facial expressions: babies prefer faces; give info about emotional state, interest, trust. We make attributions (heider): explanations for events/actions, inc. others behavior. Motivated to draw inferences in part by basic need for order/predictability. Just world hypothesis: attributions about victim of violent act, make mistreatment seem understandable/justified, make world seem safer/saner: attributional dimensions: personal (internal/dispositional): internal characteristics (abilities, traits, moods, efforts). Situational (external): outside events (luck, accidents, others actions). Jones: correspondence bias: tendency to expect behaviors of others to correspond w/ beliefs/personalities, when we make attributions about selves, tend to focus on situations.