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Chapter 16: Social
Behavior
The way individuals’
thoughts, feelings, &
behavior are influenced
by others
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Social Psychology
Person
perception
Attribution processes
Interpersonal attraction
Attitudes
Conformity and obedience
Behavior in groups
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Person Perception:
Forming Impressions of Others
Effects of physical appearance.
Cognitive schemas.
We ascribe desirable personality characteristics &
more competent to those who are good looking. They
have better jobs & get paid more.
Social schemas. Are organized clusters of ideas
about categories of events & people. (Dates, meetings,
dumb jokes)
Stereotypes.
Are products of schemas shared by cultures, that
people have certain characteristics b/c of their
membership of the group. (sex, age, ethnicity, job)
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Figure 16.1 Examples of social schemas
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Person Perception:
Forming Impressions of Others
Subjectivity in person perception.
Perception is
subjective to what they see & how they see it.
Illusory Correlation. People overestimate the
encounters that confirm a stereotype and underestimate #
of disconfirmations.
Selective Attention. Selectively recall facts that fit
with their schemas & stereotypes.
Spotlight Effect. Assume that the social spotlight
shines more brightly on them than it actually does.
Illusion of Asymmetric Insight. Tendency to think
that their knowledge of their peers is greater then theirs
peer knowledge of them.
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Person Perception:
Forming Impressions of Others
Evolutionary perspectives. Argue that many biases
seen in social perception were adaptive of humans’ ancestral
environment.
Categorizing traits, help us separate friend from foe.
In-group. Us
Out-group. Them
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Attribution Processes: Explaining Behavior
Attributions. Inferences that people draw about the causes
of events, others’ behavior & their own behavior
Internal. The cause of behavior to personal dispositions,
traits, abilities, & feelings.
External. The cause of behavior is to situational demands
& environmental constraints.
Weiner’s
model of attributions
4 Types of Attributions for
Lack of ability
Inadequate effort
Too much competition
Bad Luck
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Success & Failure
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Attribution Processes: Explaining Behavior
Biases
in attributions
Fundamental
attribution error. Observer’s bias in
favor of internal attributions in explaining others’
behavior, actor favors external attribution.
Defensive attribution. Blame victims for their
misfortune, so that you feel less likely to be victimized
Self-serving bias. Attribute your success to
personal factors & failure to situational factors.
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Figure 16.4 An alternative view of the
fundamental attribution error
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Attribution Processes: Explaining Behavior
Cultural
influences
Individualism. Putting personal goals ahead of group
goals & defining one’s identity in terms of personal.
Collectivism. Putting group goals ahead of personal
goals & defining one’s identity in terms of group.
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Close Relationships: Liking and Loving
Key factors in attraction
Interpersonal Attraction. Positive feelings towards
Physical attractiveness. In the initial stage of dating it
another.
continues to influence the course of commitment.
Matching hypothesis. People of approximately equal
physical attractiveness are likely to select each other as
partners.
Similarity. ”birds of a feather flock together”
Reciprocity. Liking those who show that they like you.
Romantic Ideals. People want their partner to measure up
to their ideals & we evaluate our partner to those standards.
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Close Relationships: Liking and Loving
Perspectives
Hatfield
on love
& Berscheid
Passionate
love. Complete absorption in another
intense emotions of ecstasy.
Companionate love. Warm, trusting, tolerant affection
for another whose life is deeply intertwined.
Sternberg
Intimacy. Warm, closeness & sharing in a
relationship
Commitment. Intent to maintain a relationship in
spite of difficulties & costs that may arise.
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Figure 16.7 Infant attachment and
romantic relationships
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Attitudes and Attitude Change
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components
cognitive,
Factors
affective, and behavioral
in changing attitudes
Source. Person who sends the communication
Message. Info transmitted by the source.
Receiver. The person whom the message is sent to.
Theories
of attitude change
Learning
theory. Classical/Operant/Observational
Cognitive Dissonance theory. Inconsistent & Contradicts
Self-perception theory. Infer attitudes from behavior
Elaboration likelihood model. Central Route/Peripheral Route
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Figure 16.9 The possible components of
attitudes
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Figure 16.10 Overview of the persuasion
process
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Figure 16.12 Cognitive Dissonance
Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) study
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Figure 16.13 Bem’s self-perception
theory
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Yielding to Others: Conformity
Conformity
– Solomon Asch (1950s)
When people yield to real or imagined social pressure
Classic
Group
experiment
size. 2 to 4 participants increase
Group unanimity. When pressure is on we tend
to follow the leader.
Video
Clip
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Yielding to Others: Obedience
Obedience
– Stanley Milgram (1960s)/
Philip Zimbardo (1973)
Form of compliance when following direct commands, usually
from someone in a position of authority.
Controversial
landmark experiment
“I was just following orders”
presence of a dissenter
Video Clip
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Behavior in Groups:
The Influence of Other People
The
bystander effect - Darley and Latane
(1968) People are less likely to help when they are in groups than
when they are alone
Diffusion
Group
of responsibility
productivity
Social
loafing.
Reduction in effort by individuals when working
in groups as compared to when they work by themselves.
Decision
making in groups
Polarization. Occurs when group discussion strengthens a
group’s dominant point of view & produces a shift towards a more
extreme decision in that direction.
Groupthink.
Occurs when members of a cohesive group
emphasizes concurrence at the expense of critical
thinking in arriving at a decision.
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Behavior in Groups:
The Influence of Other People
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Figure 16.21 The three potential
components of prejudice as an
attitude
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Figure 16.22 Relationship between
prejudice and discrimination
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Figure 16.23 Bias in the attributions
used to explain success and failure by
men and women
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