PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Daniel Batson, Fundamental Attribution Error, Rotten Apples
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Social psychology: the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations. The assumption was that the soldier who had perpetuated these acts were rotten apples. Zimbardo from the stanford university prison experiment says that the balance of power in prisons is so unequal that they tend to be brutal places. Psychologists can apply evolutionary theory to understand the ways in which all humans behave in similar fashion and try to understand it through adaptation. The main things that influence our behavior are the actions and sometimes just the mere presence of other people. We rely on other people for clues about what emotions to feel in various situations and even to define who we are as individuals. In the milgram experiment, most participants used the max voltage, due to the speculation that they (cid:449)ere(cid:374)"t prepared to resist a(cid:374)yo(cid:374)e"s de(cid:373)a(cid:374)ds.
