PSC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Loafing, Ingroups And Outgroups, Groupthink
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Chapter 12: social psychology, social psychology how people influence each other people"s thoughts ,feelings, and behaviors. Forming impressions of others: nonverbal actions and expressions give basic ideas of how you feel about someone, attributions are people"s explanations for why events or actions happen. Ex: gait, arm movements, facial expressions, tattoos/piercings: we want to know why things happen. If something random and bad happens, we make attributions to look for a reason to explain the random badness. Just world hypothesis good people receive good things because they deserve it bad people receive bad things because they deserve it: attributional dimensions. Personal attributions explanations that refer to people"s internal characteristics. Situational attributions explanations that refer to external events. Luck, weather, accidents, other people: attributions about the self, we have a self-serving bias: we give ourselves the benefit of the doubt. Good things happen because of our personal traits.
