PS270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Hindsight Bias, Naturalistic Fallacy
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Social psychology: the scientific study of how people think about, influence and relate to one another. Social thinking - how we perceive others and ourselves, beliefs, judgments and attitudes. Social influence - culture and biology, pressure to conform, persuasion, groups of people. Social relations - helping, aggression, attraction and intimacy, prejudice. Social psychology studies our thinking, influence and relationships. Science that studies the influences of our situations with special attention tohow we view and affect one another. How people think about (perceive self and abandon others, beliefs, judgements, attitudes), influence (culture and biology, pressures to conform, persuassion, groups of people) and relate (helping, aggression, attraction/intimacy, prejudice) to one another. Social behaviour varies upon the objective situation and how we contrue it. Construct our social reality: how we construe the world amd ourselves matters. Our social institutions are often powerful but sometimes perilous: unconcious mind, error in instututions.
