PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Binge Drinking, Pluralistic Ignorance, Production Blocking
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The scientific study of the reciprocal influence of the individual and his or her social environment. The cycle going back and forth from individual to other people and getting influenced back from other people. Other people (and their thoughts feeling, attitudes and behavior) Social psychology: a foothold in abstract theory and concrete practice both basic and applied. Social psychology is not like chemistry or physics: we traffic in probabilities, likelihood, and correlations, rather than absolute laws. Despite the enormous variability of human behaviour, it is possible to extract some basic patterns of human behaviour. Sometimes even our grandma"s intuitions are wrong! (i. e. not supported by data) Plus sometimes two opposing clich s may seem equally intuitive: You are working on a task (rolling cigars in a cuban cigar factory) with 20 other people. The owners expand the factory so that now 100 people are all rolling cigars side-by-side.
