Lecture 1 - Introduction Flashcards
definition social psychology
how people think about, relate to and influence eachother, interpersonally or within groups
“opposites attract”
false, similarities do
“first impression”
most impactful, but not better/more reliable
realtionship ends, who suffers most?
men
beautiful people and happiness
does not affect happiness
levels of social psy
intrapersonal
interpersonal
intra-group
inter-group
three axioms of social psy
- function of the person in situation = sum of cognition, emotion and behaviour
- people construct their own reality
- people are social animals
social conformity
= peer pressure
social learning
brain rewards you for conformity
ostracism
= social exclusion
personality psychology
stable psychological traits
f.e. big five
evolutionary psychology
heritability of behaviour
many tendencies evolved because they were adaptive
examples for evolutionary fear responses
to snakes but not to flowers
to outgroup men but not to women
group psychology
about crowds and conformity
cultural psychology
how culture shapes behaviour
self-serving bias
selectively interpreting evidence, favoring own group
why “need to belong”?
evolutionary adaptive
ancester lived as hunter-gatherers
cooperation crucial for survival
for psychological and emotional well-being
social brain hypothesis
our complex brain results from complex social life
herding instict
desire for meaningful relations with others
exclusion is painful
four needs
belonging
control
self-esteem
meaningful existence
threated when excluded
consequences of social exclusion
threat to four needs
decreased cognitive performance
increased aggression (esp. against excluders)
social exclusion in the brain
anterior cingulate + right ventral prefrontal = pain
