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Social Psychology

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The scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations.

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Zimbardo Prison Experiment

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Experiment where make-believe roles were assigned to men for prison guards and prisoners. Prison guards abused the prisoners.

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Milgram Experiment

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Electric shock experiment with white coat guy.

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Dispositions

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Internal Factors: Beliefs, values, personality traits, and abilities that guide behavior

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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Failure to recognize the importance of situational influences on behavior and instead solely attributing behavior to dispositional factors

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Nudge Factors

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Small, innocuous-seeming prompts that have big effects on behavior (a check box that says ‘Don’t enroll for autopay’ rather than a check box that says ‘Enroll for autopay’)

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Gestalt Psychology

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Objects are not perceived through passive means objectively and without bias, but rather through an active nonconscious interpretation of what the object represents

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Naïve Realism

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The belief that we see the world without cognitive biases or complex cognitive machinery and instead see it in a direct, objective sense

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Construal of Situations and Behaviors

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Refers to our interpretation of situations and behaviors and to the usually nonconscious inferences we make about them

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Schemas

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Generalized knowledge of the physical and social world, such as what behavior to expect when interacting with a store clerk.

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Stereotypes

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Schema that we have for people of various kinds

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Automatic Processing

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Nonconscious and influenced by emotion. Results in implicit attitudes that can’t be readily controlled by the conscious mind.

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Controlled Processing

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Deliberate and conscious thought, use of logic. Results in explicit attitudes and beliefs that we’re aware of.

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Ideomotor Mimicry

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Nonconsciously mimicking someone’s body positioning whenever you’re in a conversation with them

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Nonconscious Processing

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We are not aware of how much of our stimuli is nonconsciously processed. For example when recognizing someone’s face you are recognizing a bunch of their distinct facial features at the same time.

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Natural Selection: Evolution and Human Behavior

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A lot of human behavior is essentially encoded in our genes. This is evident in the fact that a lot of behaviors are universal, for example some facial expressions.

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Parental Investment

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Women tend to put more value to kids and need partners that can support them because of the limited amount of kids they can have. Men can theoretically have an unlimited amount of kids so that stuff doesn’t matter to them as much.

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Naturalistic Fallacy

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The way things are, are the way they should be

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Neocortex

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The size of this part of the human brain is what distinguishes humans from other mammals. Involved in reasoning, abstract thought, and memory.

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Behavior and Adaptability

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Because of adaptability and flexibility in culture and behavior, humans are able to adapt to any environment and essentially to any situation.

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Independent/Individualistic Cultures

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Essentially able to form bonds and relationships but if those relationships get too troublesome then they can cut those ties

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interdependent/collectivistic cultures

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Don’t have complete personal control over their lives but also don’t necessarily want it

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Independence and Gray Matter

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People who were more independent rather than interdependent as shown in a study were seen to have more gray matter (neuron clusters)

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Familialism

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Interdependent social value defined by interpersonal warmth, closeness, and support

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Hindsight Bias

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Tendency to believe you could have predicted the outcome of something you learned about. When you have to predict the results of what you’re studying and then learn what the results are, you avoid this.

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Hypothesis and Theory

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Hypothesis: Prediction of a particular study in a particular set of conditions.
Theory: Several propositions that support an idea, backed up by lots of facts.

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Dissonance Theory

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The theory that people like their thoughts to be consistent with each other and will do substantial cognitive work to make that so.

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Participant Observation

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Observing some phenomenon at a close range. A form of observational research. For example an anthropologist following a community closely and documenting their activities.

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Archival Research

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Use of archives of information to perform research, past data and statistics, reports. For example study that used FBI data to show that murders involving barrooms and bedrooms were more common in the South.

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Surveys

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Asking questions through questionnaires or interviews, kind of self explanatory.

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Representative Sampling

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Sample of questioned people must be representative of population as a whole. Done by randomly sampling people.

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Convenience Sampling

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Example, asking just people as they walk into the library. NOT random as it must be caused by some sort of bias.

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Correlational Research vs Experimental Research

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Correlational Research: Two or more variables are measured to see if there is a relationship between them.
Experimental Research: Enables investigators to determine why a relationship exists or how different situations affect people’s behaviors.

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Correlation and Causation

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Correlation does not necessarily mean causation. There may be other factors such as a third variable or a reverse causation.

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Self selection

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The investigator has no control over a participant’s score or level in a particular level. For example you have no control on what religion they follow or whatever. Prevents correlation from showing causal relationships.

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Longitudinal Study

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Taking measurements from different periods in time. For example, measuring teens playing violent video games then into adulthood measuring incarceration rates. Does not remove causation problem but does remove reverse directionality as a 30 year old’s decisions can’t effect what he did as a 15 year old.

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Independent vs Dependent variable

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IV: Experimenter manipulates
DV: Experimenter measures, caused by IV

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Controlled Variable

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Essentially the same conditions of the experiment except it lacks the one ingredient in the hypothesis predicted to affect the dependent variable

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Random Assignment

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Helps get rid of third variable problem

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Natural Experiment

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An event occurs and the investigator measures for a causal outcome out of that event, the investigator doesn’t cause the event themselves. Kind of removes the third variable problem.

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External Validity

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Whether the findings or conditions of an experiment can be applied to situations outside of the context of a lab setting. Whether they can have real world implications and applications. Can it occur in everyday life? Not always essential, however.

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Field experiment

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Takes place in the real world out in the field and measures stimuli that participants wouldn’t expect. Helps with external validity.

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Internal validity

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Likelihood that only the manipulated variable and no other external influences may have caused the results. Help get rid of it with random assignment.

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Reliability

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Do the conditions give consistent results on repeated occasions? Can two measuring instruments provide the same or close results?

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Measurement Validity

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Correlation between a measure and the outcome a measure is supposed to predict. For example higher IQ score should mean that students perform better in school, so correlation between school results and IQ test scores is measured.

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Regression to the mean

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Think about a bell curve, correlation in one variable may be stronger than correlation on another variable. Probabilistic, conditions may cause something that wouldn’t typically happen to happen.

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Statistical Significance

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Measure of the probability that a result of an experiment could have occurred by chance alone. Value should be 1 in 20 or less than .05. Two Factors help this, size of difference between groups/size of relationship of correlation and number of cases on which the finding is based.

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Replication

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The experiment is able to be reproduced and so are its results.

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Open Science

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Experimental results are open, anyone can come and look at the data and confirm it or do whatever the fuck with it.

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Informed consent

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Participant agreeing to be researched after being told all of the conditions of the experiment. Keeps shit ethical.

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Deception research and debriefing

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Situations where informed consent would mess up the study, so people who are measured in the study are debriefed afterwards about the experiment they were a part of.

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Basic Science

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Trying to measure and figure out why something happens in its own right. For example measuring obedience instead of trying to find out what makes people more or less obedient.

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Applied Science

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Example would be how to make preteens less susceptible to smoking

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Causal Attribution

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Process people use to explain their own and other people’s behavior

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Explanatory Style

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People’s habitual way of explaining events. Has three dimensions: Internal/External, Stable/Unstable, Global/Specific.
Internal/External: Due to something about the person or to the situation
Stable/Unstable: Cause will be present in the future or not
Global/Specific: Cause influences many aspects of someone’s life or just this one

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Optimistic Explanatory Style

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External, unstable, and specific

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Caveat to external attributions

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Something like seeking out fame and fortune may seem like an internal attribution, but many people seem to find fame and fortune attractive so it is considered external

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Covariation Principle

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Has three types:
Consensus: Refers to what most people would do in a given situation
Distinctiveness: How does an individual behave in different situations
Consistency: What an individual does in a given situation on different occasions

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When do situational attributions occur

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Consensus, Distinctiveness, and Consistency are all high

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When do dispositional attributions occur

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Consistency is high, consensus and distinctiveness are low

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Discounting principle

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Confidence that a particular cause produced a given outcome is lower if there are other causes that are possible to have caused that outcome

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Augmentation principle

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Confidence that particular cause produced a given outcome is higher if other causes would produce a different outcome. For example if someone advocates for a position despite being threatened with torture for doing so, we’re more likely to believe it

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Counterfactual thinking

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Thoughts counter to the fact. What could have, should have, might have happened. Process present sometimes in making causal assessments.

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Emotional amplification

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Emotion is intensified if a thing almost didn’t happen because of a cause. For example a loved one dies because you switched their seats in a bus last second. Example of counterfactual thinking.

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Self-serving attributional bias

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People attribute their failures and mishaps to external attributions, but their successes to dispositional factors

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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Attributing the behaviors of other people to dispositional factors rather than situational factors even when powerful situational factors are in place

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Reasons people commit the fundamental attribution error

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Dispositional inferences about ourselves can be comforting. For example you think if something bad happened to another person it must have not been situational, and if we do good then good will come to us.

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Just world hypothesis

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People get what they deserve in life

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Perceptual Salience

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A reason situational factors may not be noticeable to the observer. They are so focused on the person doing the behavior that they think it must be important.

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Limited Experiences effect on fundamental attribution error

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More of the FAE is likely to occur from limited experiences with someone because you are only seeing them in the context of that situation

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Actor-Observer error

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Attributing your own actions to be situational and the actions of others to be caused by dispositional factors

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Activation of the frontoparietal area of the brain

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Is activated more when people have to do some sort of thing that doesn’t come to them naturally. For example an American having to pay attention to the context

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Causal Attribution for Independent and Interdependent People

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Independent people, westerners, attribute things more often to disposition. Interdependent people, Asians, attribute things more often to situational factors

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Priming Causal Attributions

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If you show participants American stuff, they’ll attribute things to dispositional factors. If you show them Chinese stuff, they’ll attribute things to situational factors

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Causal Attribution differences in social class

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Wealthier people seemed to attribute things more to dispositional factors as opposed to lower class people. This is probably because lower class people interact with more people as opposed to wealthier people

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Emotions vs Moods

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Emotions are usually quick and subjective. Moods can also be subjective but they last longer, such as feeling irritable. Emotional disorders can last long. Emotional disorders and moods aren’t always clear what they’re caused by, emotions tend to be more clear.

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Two reasons for having emotions

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Help us interpret our surrounding circumstances and prompt us to act.

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Universal vs Cultural views on emotion

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Evolution supports that emotion is universal and caused by adapting and reacting to stimuli. Cultural views support that emotion is influenced by culture. Research shows that there is evidence of both.

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Universality of Facial Expressions

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Shown to be pretty consistent throughout different cultures

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People like other people who show more emotion

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As it says. If you blush more and seem more open about your emotions people will tend to view you in a more positive light

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Focal Emotions

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Emotions that are more common and intense in certain cultures. For example Chinese people may show more focus towards shame and embarrassment, Mexicans may be more prideful.

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Affect valuation theory

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Cultures will more commonly convey emotions that promote their ideals and values. More independent cultures seem to show more smiles and brightness

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Display rules

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Culturally specific rules that determine how, when, and to whom expressions of emotion should be conveyed. For example, you may mask your disgust at your mom’s cooking with a polite smile

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Orbitofrontal Cortex

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Losing function in this area of the brain makes you lose the function to rely on emotions to act in ways that fit the current situation

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Commitment issue

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Issue caused by lack of emotional reliability that causes one to be less committed to those he has a close relationship with. Emotions solves this issue

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Oxytocin

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Chemical that fosters commitment in long term relationships. Injecting this causes people to have higher empathy and be more generous

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Touching people

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Touching people also makes people more inclined to be open and invokes positive responses. Touch people. Touch them. Touch them.

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Awe

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Emotions of awe tend to invoke feelings of belonging.

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Emotions influence perception

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A certain emotion can influence perception in the sense that we perceive things going on around us in the light of that emotion. For example if we are angry we perceive people’s actions to be hostile and whatnot

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Broaden-and-build Hypothesis

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Says that negative emotions narrow our view of the world and kind of close us off. Positive emotions broaden our views and understanding and makes us develop better social relationships

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Emotions affect moral judgement. Social intuitionist model of moral judgement

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For example, the gut feeling that incest is wrong. We tend to have that gut feeling and then try to come up with reasonings after

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Moral foundations theory

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Much of our moral psychology rests on five foundations:
Care/Harm: concern for suffering of others
Fairness/cheating: focuses on justice of fairness
Loyalty/betrayal: commitment to groups and whatnot
Authority/subversion: finding one’s place in the social hierarchy
Purity/degradation: focuses on staying pure, away from sicknesses, and pure as in away from impure thoughts and stuff

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Two distinct, measurable components of happiness

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Life satisfaction, how well you think your life is going in general. Emotional well-being, quality of your moment-to-moment feelings.

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Affective forecasting

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Measured variable of emotional state in the future. Experiment of luckies and leftovers, luckies believed that two months after a breakup they would be super depressed, but leftovers actually didn’t seem to feel that way

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Immune neglect

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One of the factors that cause us to incorrectly predict our future happiness. We forget that our happiness has an immune system that finds the good in things

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Focalism

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Another factor that causes us to incorrectly predict future happiness. We focus on the central thing of a significant event, such as a breakup, but forget that other factors can also affect our happiness

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Three factors that affect happiness

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Peak moment. We remember the best bite of dessert. Ending. We recall the enjoyability of the last moments of a good event. The third factor that has very little influence is length, otherwise known as duration neglect

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Self-schemas

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People’s beliefs and feelings towards themselves, both in general and in particular situations. Built from past experience

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Reflected Self Appraisals

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We see ourselves in the eyes of others. Our beliefs about others’ reactions to us. Aren’t actually that accurate. We see ourselves as more shy than people actually perceive us to be.

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Working self-concept

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Only a subset of our vast pools of self-knowledge are utilized in a certain context. For example, notions of the self revolving around competition may be at the forefront of our minds during a sports match.

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Culture and self

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Westerners value independent self construals, they are themselves and separate in identity from other people. Easterners value interdependent self construals, they see themselves as someone who fulfills a role in society

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Self in gender

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Women tend to relate the self to social situations, for example when describing who they best are in a picture the picture tends to include other people. Men tend to point out more personal characteristics. Socialization is one of the things that causes this difference

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Social Comparison Theory

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Sometimes people seek out information about themselves through comparison with other people. We tend to favor downward social comparisons, in other words comparing ourselves with people slightly inferior to us, in order to boost our self esteem

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Self-esteem

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Overall positive or negative evaluation people have about themselves

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Trait self esteem

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Enduring level of self-regard over time, typically pretty stable

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State self esteem

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More changeable, more so about the self/self-esteem at that moment

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Contingencies of self worth model

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People’s self esteem gets affected by success and failures in the domains in which they have staked their self esteem. it goes up when you do well in areas that matter to you

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Sociometer hypothesis

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Self-esteem is an internal, subjective index of how well regarded we are by others and how likely we are to be included or excluded by them

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Self esteem and culture

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Asians value self esteem less than americans do. This is because of culture and day to day interactions

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Self-enhancement

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Desire to increase self-esteem

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Better-than-average-effect

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People think they are above average in the shit they do, or in popularity and stuff like that.

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Self-affirmation theory

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When people receive information or something happens that lowers their self-esteem, they will sometimes affirm themselves in a domain unrelated to the negative stimulus. For example if I learn that I have testicular cancer I’ll affirm myself by saying that I’m a funny guy

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Self-enhancement

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We see ourselves as better in a particular domain than we actually are. Is actually good for our self esteem and well being

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Self-verification

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We can also look for more subjective and accurate views on ourselves, which can help make ourselves more predictable and better in social situations. In other words, we strive to do shit that makes other people confirm our self-views. If we think we’re extroverted we’ll want other people to see that as well

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Self regulation

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act in which people initiate, alter, and regulate their behaviors in pursuit of their goals

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Self discrepancy theory

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Actual, ought, and ideal self theory. If there is a discrepancy between these then it can emotionally fuck you up.

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Promotion focus

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Ideal self, you wanna focus on attaining a positive outcome. Westerners focus on this more

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Prevention focus

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Ought self, you wanna focus on avoiding a negative outcome. East asians focus on this more

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Implementation intentions

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Specify how one will behave to achieve a goal in particular circumstances. If-then principle, if my roommate gives me a snarky comment I’ll ignore him

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Goals and improvement

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Bringing goals to mind can help resist temptations

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Self presentations

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Presenting others with the person we would like to believe we are

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Self-monitoring

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Monitoring our own behavior to fit the demands of the given situation

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Self-handicapping

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engaging in self-defeating behavior to protect the public self

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Pluralistic inference

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People are reluctant to give misgivings of a particular group norm, so their reluctance reinforces the false norm. Mistaken inferences are made from this

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Negative information

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More often reported than positive information, which leads people to believe that are at risk of more calamities than they actually are

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Way info is presented, primacy effect and recency effect

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primacy effect: The first thing presented is more influential because it affects interpretation of subsequent material.
Recency effect: Last thing is more influential because it is fresh in the memory

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Framing effect

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Examples are recency and primacy effect, other examples are just presenting info in a way to create a desired effect

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Confirmation bias

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People try to search for information that confirms the predicted hypothesis and are biased towards it and tend to find it more often

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Schemas

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Cognitive structure/organization of social norms. Top-down processing. You take shit you already know and apply it to shit you don’t know

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Recency of schema

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The more recently a schema has been activated the more likely it will be applied to new information

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Availability heuristics

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We make assessments based on what comes mostly available to mind. Makes us overestimate risks of hazards or overestimate our contributions to group projects

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