Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sandwich Board, Construals, Procedural Justice

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Scientific study of the way in which people"s thoughts, feels, and behaviours are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people: how and why our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are shaped by the entire social environment. What study it: curiosity, desire to understand self and others. Some of most important problems are social problems, and we can help solve them: environmental issues, health issues, political issues, relationship issues. Scientific social psychology: experimentally-based science, theories and ideas based on empirical evidence, researchers design studies to systematically test interesting questions. Social psychological focus: believe it is most important to understand individuals" construal of the social environment, less concerned with understanding objective properties of social environment itself, construal: way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world. Level of analysis is the individuals in the context of a social situation.

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