PSYC 1010 Chapter 16: Chapter 16

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Social psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals" thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others. Good-looking attractive individuals are seen as more sociable, Observers are quick to draw conclusions about people based on how they move, talk, and gesture. Stereotypes are widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a. Stereotypes tend to be broad overgeneralizations that can lead us to see what we expect to see and to overestimate friendly, poised, warm, and well adjusted. Example: baby-faced people are viewed as more honest and trustworthy. conclusions tend to be fairly accurate. Spotlight---people"s tendency to assume that the social spotlight shines more brightly on them than it actually. Illusion of asymmetric insight the finding that people tend to think what they know(knowledge) is greater. People tend to overestimate the degree to which others pay attention to them (spotlight) and people tend to think.