PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: James W. Pennebaker, Unconscious Mind, Social Forces
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Social psychology is a science that studies the influences of or situations, with specific emphasis on how we view and affect one another. Social psychology emerged post world war ii. Studies our thinking, influences, and relationships by asking questions: Social thinking (self and others, beliefs, judgements, attitudes), social influence (culture, conformity pressures, persuasion), social relations (prejudice, aggression, attraction, helping) You react differently, because you think differently. Princeton-dartmouth football game how we construt reality princeton students saw twice as many dartmouth infractions, and the dartmouth students found similar results for the princeton students. Instant intuitions shape fears, impressions, relationships an unconscious mind acts as a backstage mind for processing these intuitions/situations. Two levels on which thinking, memory, and attitudes operate on conscious and deliberate, and unconscious and automatic. Intuition can be risky e. g. you see image of a crash, you might stop flying this is irrational. Intuitions and unconscious information processing are routinely powerful and perilous.
