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SITUATIONISM

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view that our behaviour and actions are determined by our immediate environment and surroundings

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DISPOSITIONISM

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behaviour is determined by internal factors

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fundamental attribution error

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** tend to fail to recognize when the behaviour of another is due to situational variables, and thus to the person’s state**

  • simple strategy to understand the world
  • situationism vs dispositionism
  • people tend to lean towards DISPOSITION in NA
  • tendency that people’s behaviours are the result of their TRAIT rather than the situation
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where is belief in disposition over situation more prevelant

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individualistic vs. collectivistic cultures

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what political group leans more towards dispositionism

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right-leaning

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what political group leans more towards situationism

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left- leaning

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all individuals lean toward individualism/dispositionism when…

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disinhibited (alcohol) or under cognitive load

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attitudes and types

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  • like traits
  • stable
  • fixed overtime
  • predisposition to a stimulus

TYPES:
Peripheral route persuasion
Central route persuasion

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Peripheral route persuasion

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audience: motivation, analytical
processing: high effort, evaluate message
persuasion: lasting change in attitude

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Central route persuasion

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audience: not motivated, not analytical
processing: low effort, persuaded by cues outside of message
persuasion: temporary change in attitude

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examples of how Actions can modify attitudes

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  • Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
  • Role playing
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Foot-in-the-door phenomenon

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more likely to comply with a larger request if they comply with a small fast first

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Role playing

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  • imagine themslves a certain way
  • more likely to act that way later on
  • “fake it till you make it”
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Festinger’s cognitive dissonance theory

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When attitudes do not fit with actions, tensions are often reduced by changing attitudes to match actions

behaviour SHAPES attitude

psychological discomfort arising from holding 2 or more inconsistent attitudes, behaviours, or cognitions

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Conformity implications in WEIRD cultures

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negative judgement

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types of conformity

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  • Compliance (obedience)
  • Acceptance
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compliance

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conformers without believing

why? to seek out social rewards and avoid social punishments

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Acceptance

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grow to understand or even agree with other person’s point of view
maybe related to cognitive dissonance

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normative social influence

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  • to gain social approval/favour so people like us more
  • the influence of other people that leads us to conform in order to be liked and accepted by them
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ASCH’S CONFORMITY EXPERIMENTS

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Predicting adjustment of behaviour
* Feelings of competence
* Group size
* Group agreement
* Group status
* Response commitment
* Known observation
* Cultural mores

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Stanley Milgram

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  • 1933-1984
  • Jewish
  • Worked with Asch
  • Demands of authority vs. demands of conscience
  • Operationalizing obedience
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what did milgram want to study

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how can normal everyday people go along with these atrocities of WWII?

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milgram’s study

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  • “The effect of punishment on learning”
  • Draw roles out of a hat?
  • Use of confederate
  • The shock generator
  • The task
  • From 15 to 450 volts
  • The learner protests
  • The experimenter prods
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confederate

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  • person who is aware of the experiment and works for the researcher
  • Used to manipulate social situations as part of the research design
  • Participants believe that confederate are, like them, uninformed participants in the experiment
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what most people thought would happen in the milgram experiment
* Most claim they would disobey by 135 volts * Most claim others would disobey by 200 volts * Most guessed no one would go to 450 volts/“XXX”
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Predictors of obedience shown from Milgram
* Emotional distance of the victim * Closeness, legitimacy of the authority * Authority of the institution * Role model for compliance * Lack of role models for defiance * Conformity against conformity? * Foot-in-the-door effect
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Methodological problems with Milgram’s experiments
* many thought it wasn't real * Direct orders were actually least convincing * cf. Appeals to scientific progress * Experimenter occasionally off-script * Mostly only men BUT * Reproduced many times, by other researchers, in women as well
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what does Milgrim’s experiment suggest in terms of the fundamental attribution error
* We over-estimate influence of personal traits * We under-estimate influence of situational traits
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Social facilitation
triplett being around the presence of others arouses us and improves our performance in many aspects
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Social loafing
- exert less effort in a social setting - Exertion of less effort by a person working in a group because individual performance cannot be evaluated separately from the group, thus causing performance decline on easy tasks
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causes of social loafing
- not feeling accountable - if your individual contributions don't matter - don't identify with the rest of the group members
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Deindividuation
Group situation in which a person may feel a sense of anonymity and a resulting reduction in accountability and sense of self
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group polarization
- the internet works as a social amplifier - when exposed to likeminded people, amplifies and polarizes view from the norm of middle - Strengthening of the original group attitude after discussing views within a group
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Groupthink
- people are driven for harmony towards group - minimize the amount of disagreement around themselves - Tendency to prioritize group cohesion over critical thinking that might lead to poor decision making - more likely to occur when there is perceived unanimity among the group
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Individual power in conformity
- does not take many individuals to break groupthink and conformity
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Prejudice
* Means “prejudgment” * Is an unjustified (usually negative) attitude toward some group and its members * Can be understood as a social extension of previous cognitive ideas we explored (e.g. schemas) * Often targets different cultural, ethnic, or gender group
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Components of antisocial relations
* Beliefs (stereotypes) * Emotions * Predispositions to action (i.e. to discrimination)
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An important distinction between prejudice and discrimination
- Prejudice is a negative attitude - Discrimination is a negative behavior - Discrimination can be subtle (e.g. microaggressions)
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prejudice in north america changes
EXPLICIT prejudice in North America has decreased over the decades of psychology research instead, it has shifted into IMPLICIT prejudice
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examples of Social roots of prejudice
- Social inequalities - Just-world phenomenon - Stereotypes and rationalization
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Just-world hypothesis
- beliefs that people get the outcomes they deserve - To maintain this belief, ppl tend to think that good ppl get good outcomes, bad ppl get bad outcomes
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In-group
- social definition of what we are and what we are not - what you associate yourself with - identify with some characteristic
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In-group bias
favour in-group vs out-group
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Scapegoat theory
people are quick to find someone to blame highest levels in economically disadvantaged
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Scapegoating
act of blaming an outgroup when the in-group experiences frustration or is blocked from obtaining a goal
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Implicit association test
- measure Implicit racial associations - say through behaviours what they're unwilling to say out loud
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Unconscious patronization
evaluating different groups of people at different standards
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Race-influenced perceptions
being quick to ascribe certain aspects to certain groups of people
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Reflexive bodily responses
- microaggressions - not always replicable - not at levels of consciousness
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Potential problems with the IAT:
- Scores are not stable in individuals... a lot of variability - Likely to be measuring cultural/linguistic associations (cf. red + warm vs. red + cold) - Doesn’t erase the harm of the poor cultural association though! - Very poor predictive validity, don't find strong association between IAT score and behaviour - Interventions to change bias via changes to IAT scores have failed
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evidence for implicit bias
- In a simulation, police shoot unarmed black suspects more often than unarmed white suspects - Employers more likely to call back white/men’s names vs. other names for job interview
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What can we do about implicit bias?
- Extensive training (e.g. police simulation) - Regular positive “intergroup” contact - Exposure to counter-stereotypes, e.g. community policing - Building a bigger in-group: e.g. urban vs. rural - Working toward common goals
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mere exposure effect
being around someone makes you more likely to attract them
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Some universal physical features of attractiveness
Youthful Averageness Symmetry BUT appealing traits enhance feelings of physical attractiveness Attraction endures when people are more alike
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online dating and matchmaking
* Increasingly common way for friendships and romantic relationships to form * Success rate for romantic AND friendships sometimes reported higher than in-person connections
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Passionate love
- intense absorption... often at the beginning of relationships - but doesn't stay forever - when a lot of arousal, we try to make sense of it in our ad
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Key to a satisfying and enduring relationship?:
time!
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where does Altruism occur
Occurs in humans and non-human animals Most likely in an emergency
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other factors that increase likelihood of altruism
- children - women - good mood and good headscape - selfishness
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veneer theory
- society is the outer layer, brings out the best of us... but humans are inherently selfish
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Bystander effect
opposite of altruism when many people watching, you're less likely to give aid
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informational social inflluence
- Conformity to a group norm prompted by the belief that the group is competent and has the correct information
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do people tend to lean towards situationism or dispositionism
- We tend to think that people are in control of their own behaviours - Any behaviour change must be due to something internal, such as their personality, habits, or temperment - Ppl tend to overemphasize internal factors as explanations/attributions for the behaviour of other people
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Attitude
our evaluation of a person, idea, or object
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conformity
Changing your behavior to go along with the group even if you do not agree with the group
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Compliance
Going along with a request or demand
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obedience
Changing your behavior to please an authority figure or to avoid aversive consequences

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