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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

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  • study of how people relate to and influence each other

- use experimental method to study individuals

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Research areas

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1) mistakes we make
2) why we do what we do
3) power plays
4) groups
5) I say tomato

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Norman Triplett

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  • 1st official social psychology experiement i 1897 on social facilitation
  • cyclist performed better when placed by others vs. alone
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Kurt Lewin

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  • founder of social psychology
  • applied Gestalt ideas to behaviour
  • concieved field theory
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Field theory

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  • Kurt Lewin
  • field theory = total of influences upon individuals behaviour
  • person’s life space is collection of forces
  • valence, vector and barrier are forces
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Fritz Heider

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  • found of attribution theory and balance theory
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Attribution theory (Heider)

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  • study how people infer causes of other’s ehaviour

- ppl attribute intentions to anything - even shapes

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Balance theory (Heider)

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  • study of how ppl make their feelings and actions consistent to preserve psychology homeostasis
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Actor-observer attributional divergence

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  • tendency for ppl who are doing eahviour to have different perspective on situation than person watching
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Self-serving attributional bias

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  • interpret own ations as positive, blaming situations for failures and taking creidt for success
  • think we are better than average
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Illusory correlation

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  • assuming 2 unrelated things have a realtionahips
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Slippery slope

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  • logical fallacy that says small insignificat fist steps will lead to larger steps and have significant impact
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Hindsign bias

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  • believe after the fact that you knew something the entire time
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Halo effect

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  • thinking that is someone has good quality than he has only good qualities
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Self-fulling prophecy

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  • when one’s expectations somehow draw out the behaviour that is expected
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False consensus bias

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  • assuming mot people think as you do
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Lee Ross

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  • studied subjet wo were 1st made to believe a statement and then later told as false
  • subjects continued to belive statement and devised their own logical explanation
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Richard Nisbett

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  • lack of awareness for why we do what we do
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Base-rate fallacy

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  • overestimating the general frquency of things we are familiar with
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M.J. Lerner’s just world bias

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  • belief that good things happen to good people and bad to bad
  • uncomfortable for ppl to accept that bad things happen to good ppl so they blame the victim
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Ellen Langer

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  • studied the illusion of control

- driving force behind manipulating the lottery, gambling, and superstituion

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Oversimplification

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  • tendency to make simple explanations for complex events

- ppl hold onto OG ideas even when new factors emerge

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Representativeness heuristic

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  • using a shortcut about typical assuptions to guess at an answer vs. relying on actual logic
    e. g. a tall woman is a model rather than a lawyer but there are more lawyers than models
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Availability heuristic

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  • when people think there is ahigher proportion of one thing in a group than there really is because examples of that one thing come to mind easier
    e. g. person thinks there were more celebrity namesbecause he can recall them easier
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Leon Festinger’s cognitive dissonance theory

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  • uncomfotable for people to have beliefs that do not match their actions
  • after making decision, people are motivted to back action up by touting corresponding beliefs
  • less the act is justified, more we feel the need to justfy it by bringing out attitude in line with behaviour
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Darly Bem’s self-perception theory

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  • altnerative explanation for cogitive dissonance
  • when ppl are unsure of their belief they take their cues from own beaviour rather than changing beliefs to match their actions
  • e.g. if you demand 1000$ a day you don’t really like your job
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Overjustification effect

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  • self-perception theory
  • tendency to assume that we don’t really want to do things we are paid to do
  • if they get paid, they will loose pleasure in activity
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Gain-loss theory

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  • people act in order to obtain gain and avoid loss

- fabour situations that start out negatively and end positiveiy (even over complete positive situations)

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Social exchange theory

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  • humans interact in ways that max reward min cost
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Self-presentation

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  • important influence on behaviour

- act in way that are in line with our attitudes/ will be accepted by others

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Self-monitoring (presentation)

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  • pay close attention to their actions, will change to be more favourable
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Impression management (presentation)

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  • behaving in ways that might make a good impression
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Social facilitation

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  • Triplett
  • tendency for presence of others to either enhance or hinder performance
  • Robert Zajonc found others are good for easy task but hinder harder tasks
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Social comparison

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  • evaluating one’s own actions, abilities, opinions and ideas by comparing them to those of others
  • others are of people of own strata
  • used against mainstreaming because when people with LD are with others without - then this comparison may result in lower self-esteem
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Role

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  • set of behavioural norms that seem suitable for a particular person
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Morton Deutsch

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  • prisoner’s dilemma and trucking company game to illustrate strugle between cooperation and competition
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Prisoner’s dilemma

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  • Deutsch
  • 2 criminals are charged and best solution is to established trust and remain silent but most people spill because you can never be sure what the other might do
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Equity theory

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  • idea hat people are most comfortable in situations in which rewards and punishsments are equal, fitting and highly logical
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Overbenefited people

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  • people tend to feel guilty

- random or illogical punishments make people feel anxious

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Stanely Milgram’s stimulus-overload theory

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  • why urbanities are less prosocial than country peoples are; urbanities don’t need any more interaction
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Reciprocal interaction

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  • constanc exchange of influences between people

- factor in behaviour

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Conformity

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  • going along with real or perceieved group pressure
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Compliance

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  • people go along with conformity pubicly but not privatly
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Acceptance

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  • ppl change actions and beliefs to conform
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Dissenter

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  • person who speaks out against the majority and doesn’t conform
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Individul is most likely to conform when:

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  • majority opinion
  • majority has unanimous position
  • majority has high status, or inividual is concerned with own status
  • situation is in public
  • person not previously committed to another position
  • person has low self-esteem
  • person scores high on measure of authoritarianism
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Reactance

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  • refusal to conform that may occur as a result of blatant attempt to control
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Forewarned

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  • people will not conform if people are forewarned that others will attempt to change them
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Stanley Milgram

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  • known for experiment when teacher order experimenter to adminster painful schocks to learner
  • factors that included conformity = remotenes of victim, proximity of commander, legitmate commander, conformity of other subjects
  • 66% conformed
  • raised quetions about Nazi’s and ethics
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Philip Zimbardo

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  • people who were wearing hoods (deindividuated) were willing to administer higher levels of shocks
  • prison simulation experiment
  • show people will step into suprirsing roles
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Solomon Asch

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  • study where subjects listened to staged opinions of others about which lines were equal
  • subjects conformed to the obvious incorrect opion 33% of time
  • unanimit seemd to be influential
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Muzafer Sherif’s

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  • people’s descriptions of the autokinetic effect were influenced by other’s descriptions (light shaking in the dark)
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Speaker is most likely to change a listern’s attitude if:

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  • speaker is expert/trustworth
  • speak is similar to listener
  • speaker is acceptable
  • speaker is overheard rather than trying to influence
  • content is anecdotal, emotional, shocking
  • speak is part of 2 person debate vs. one sided
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Petty and Cacioppo’s elaboration likelihood

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  • model of persuasion suggests that people who are very invovled with issue listen to strength of argument vs. superfiial factors e.g. characteristics of speaker
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Sleeper effect

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  • explains why persuasive communication from source of low credibility may become more acceptable after the fact
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McGuire’s inoculation theory

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  • people’s beliefs are vulnerable if they have never faced challnege
  • once expeirnece callenge to their opinions, they are less vulberable
  • challnege = vaccination
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Deindividuation

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  • when individual identity/accountability is de-empahsized

- e.g. mingling in crowd, wearing uniforms and adopting a larger identity

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The Kitty Genovese Case

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  • murder of woman witnessed by many led the investigation of the bystander effect or why people are less likely to help when others are present
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Diffusion of responsbility

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  • tendecny that larger the group = less likely indiviuals in group will act or take respnsbility
  • everyone waits for someone else to act –> result of deindividuation
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Social loafting

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  • tendency to work less had in group

- guarded against when each individual is closely monitored

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Philip Zimbardo

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  • AS behaviour + correlates with population density

- left broken cars in cities; in NY was stripped in hours

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Sherif and competition

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  • scarce resources cause conflict in groups
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robber’s cave experiment

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  • Sherif

- group conflict is mot effectvely overcome by need for cooperatve atention to be a higher superordinate goal

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Contact (conflict)

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  • with the opposing party decreaes conflict

- we fear what we don’t know

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Group polarization (Stoner)

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  • james Stoner
  • group discussion generally serves to strengthen already dominant point of view
  • explains risk shift that groups will take greater risks than individuals
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Risk shift

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  • groups take greater risk than individuals because groups strengthen the dominant point of view
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Groupthink (Janis)

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  • Irving Janis
  • likely to occur in group tat has unquestioned beliefs, pressure to conform, invulnerability, censors, cohesiveness, isolation from without, and a strong leader
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Pluralistic ignorance

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  • when most of the people in a group privately disagree with something but incorrectly believe that most people in group agree with it
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Kenneth and Clark (doll perference studies)

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  • factored in the 1954 supreme court case of Brown vs. Board of Education
  • show negative effect that group segregation had on African american children’s self esteem = though white dolls were better
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Ingroup/outgroup bias

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  • individuals in one group think their membershave more positive qualities and few negative qualitites than member of other group even though qualities are the ame
    = basis for prejudice
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In relative order of importance, we are attracted to other people who:

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1) near us because we get a chance to know them (propinquity)
2) physically attractive
3) have attitudes similar to our own
4) like us back (reciprocity)

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Oppoites do not attract

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  • not backed up by evidence
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Reciprocity or dissclosure

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  • sharing secrets facilitates emotional closeness
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Excitation-transfer theory

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  • sometimes we attribute our excitmenet or arousal aout one thing to somthing else e.g. the arousal of roller coasters if thought to be from your date instead
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Mere exposure effect

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  • how stimuli are rated

- the more we see something, the more positive we rate it

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Richard Lazarus

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  • studied stress and coping

- differentiated between problem and emotion focused

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Objective self-awareness

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  • achieved through self-perception, high self-monitoring and efficacy
  • peforming tasks infront of mirror promote this
  • deindividuation work against object self-awarness
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Door in the face

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  • sales tactic in which people ask for more than thy would ever ask for to settle for less
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Foot in the door phenomem

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  • how doing a small favor makes people more willing to do larger ones later
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Social support netwok

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  • effects on mental health have emerged as an area of study that combines social and clinical ideas
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Rodin and Langer

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  • nursing home residents who have plants to care for have better health and lower morality rates
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Bogus pipeline

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  • instrument that measure physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
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Peter principle

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  • concept that people are prooted at work until they reac position of incompetence, position in which they remain
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Stuart Valins

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  • enviornmental infuences on beahviour
  • artchitecture matters
  • students in long corridor dorms feel more stress and withdrawn than in suite-style dorms
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Berkowitz’s frutration agression hypothesis

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  • posits relationship between frustration in achieve a goal and show of aggression
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Rokeach

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  • racial bias and similairity of beliefs
  • ppl prefer to be with ike minded people more than with like-skinned peole
  • racial bais decreases as attitude similairty increases
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Fischbein and Ajzen

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  • theory of reasoned action

- people’s beahviour in given situation determined by their attidued about situation and social norms

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Cross cultural research

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  • more popular

- if western ways of conceptualizing are the same as ways of other cultures

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Hazel Markus

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  • found Eastern countries value interdependence over independence
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Attitude

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  • positive, negative, or neutral evaluation or a person, issues, or object
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Hatfield

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  • 2 basic kinds of love are passionate and companionate love
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Passionate love

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  • intene longing for untion with another and profound physioloical arousal
  • based on biophysioloical system shared with other primates
  • power emotions that are positive or negative
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Companionate love

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  • affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined
  • achieved via mutual trust, respect, and communication
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Ekman

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  • humans have 6 basic emotions: sadness, happiness, fear, anger, surprise, disgust
  • found this through universal facial expresion
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FACS coding

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  • Facial action coding system determines genuine smile vs. fake
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Reciprocal socialization

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  • when 2 parties adapt to or socialize by each other e.g. parents and children who influence eachother
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Harold Kelly

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  • attriubutions we make about our actions or those of others are usually accurate
  • base this on consistency, disctinveness and consensus of the action

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