PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tribalism
16 May 2018
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Lecture 2: Introduction to Social Psychology
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➢ Relationship Termination
• The dissolution of a relationship between two people.
• What contributes to it?
▪ End of infatuation period
▪ Lack of communication
▪ Difficulty in maintaining relationships (eg: long distance)
• How do we react?
▪ Negative feelings
▪ More intense for the dumpee since they have less time to
prepare (can be broken up with out of the blue)
▪ Feelings change overtime
• Dissolution through lifespan
▪ Depending on one’s life stage it gets more complex to
terminate a relationship.
▪ It is easier to leave a relationship when you are much
younger and have fewer liabilities.
▪ For example, parents have a lot more factors to think about
when deciding to split up.
➢ Aggression
• It is very difficult to define the parameters of aggression.
• What triggers aggression?
▪ Frustration
▪ Anger
▪ Confusion (don’t know what actions to take in a specific
situation)
▪ Lack of control in a situation
▪ Sadness
• We have struggled with aggression since the origin of mankind.
➢ Altruism
• Doing something for someone else
• Why are we altruistic?
▪ Self interest: To feel good about ourselves; to put up a
public image/manage how we are viewed by others
▪ Line between genuine and self-interest is not very clear.
• When are we not altruistic?
▪ Environmental constraints (eg: Time pressure)
▪ Depends on how we feel that day
▪ If we were already altruistic in the day we could choose not
to be later on
➢ Empathy
• Feeling emotional distress of others
• What enhances empathy?
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