In this lesson we continue with social psychology, these big ideas and at the beginning, we talk about personal attitudes and dispositions, all social behavior. internal forces also matter. We are not passive tumbleweeds and merely blown this way and that by the social means our inner attitudes affect our behavior. Our political attitudes influence our voting behavior, and I was smoking attitudes influence our acceptability to peer pressure to smoke, our attitudes toward the poor influence our willingness to help them. As we'll see in future lessons, our articles also follow our behavior, which leads us to believe strongly in do things we have committed ourselves to, or suffered for. personality.
These positions also affect behavior facing the same situation. Different people may react differently emerging from years of political imprisonment. One person excuse me throwing this in seeks revenge. Well, another such a sword Africa's nasaan Nelson Mandela stakes, reconciliation and unity with his former enemies, attitudes and personality influenced behavior. 21st century social psychology is providing us with ever growing insights into our behaviors biological foundations, many of our social behaviors reflects a deep biological wisdom. If every psychological event every chart emotion and behavior is simultaneously a biological one, then we can also examine the neurobiology that underlie social behavior.
What brains areas enable our experiences of love and contempt, helping in aggression, perception and belief? How to breed mind and behavior functions together as one coordinated system? What does the timing of rate of brain events reveal about how we process information? such questions are asked by tools is social neuroscience. Social neurosciences do not produce complex social behaviors such as helping and hurting, to simple news Or molecule or mechanisms. Their point is to understand social behavior we must consider both under the skin which is biological, and between switches social influences, mind and body are one grand system.
We are bio psycho social organisms replac that interplay of biological, psychological and social influences. And that is why today psychologists study behavior from these different levels of analysis. Social Psychology has the potential to illuminate your life to make visible the subtle influences that guide your thinking and acting. And as we will see, it offers many ideas about how to know ourselves better, how to win friends and influence people and how to transform close into open arms. schoolers are also applying social psychological insights. Principle of social thinking, influence and relations have implications for human health and well being for judicial procedures and for decision In courtrooms, and for influencing behaviors This will enable any environmentally sustainable human future.
As with one perspective on human existence, psychological science doesn't seek to engage life's ultimate questions. What is the meaning of human life? What should it be our purpose? What is our ultimate destiny? But social psychology does give us a map of for asking and answering some exceedingly interesting and important questions. Social Psychology is all about why your life, your beliefs, our attitudes in relationships.
Social Psychology is the scientific study of how people think about influence in relate to one another. Its central themes includes the following how we control social worlds, how our social intuitions guide and sometimes deceive us how our social behavior is shaped by other people, by our attitudes and personality and by our biology, how social psychology principles apply to our everyday alive and to various others fields or fields of study.