It is inevitable to start this lesson with a definition. So we will see that social psychology is a science that studies the influences of our situation with special attention to how we view and affect one another. More precisely, it is scientific study of how people think about influence and relate to one another. Social Psychology lies in psychology boundary with sociology, compared to Sociology, which is the study of people in groups and societies. Social Psychology focuses more on individuals, and uses more experimentation. Compared with personality psychology, social psychology focuses less on individuals, differences, and more how individuals in general knew and affect one another.
Social Psychology is still a young science. The first social psychology experiments were reported barely more than a century ago in different social psychology tags. These will appear and feel just before and after night, the Not until the 1930s did social psychology assume its current form? And not until World War Two? did it begin to emerge as the vibrant field? It is today.
Social psychology studies our thinking, importance and relationships by asking questions that have interviewed us all. And some of those questions are, for example, how much of our social world is just in our head. As we'll see in later sections, our social behavior varies not just with the objective situation, but also with how we control it. Social beliefs can be self fulfilling, for example, happily married people will attribute the Dyrus forces acid remark by saying, Can you ever put that word belongs to something external as he must have had a frustrating day, while unhappily married people will attribute the same remark to a mean this position as he ever has style, and me respond with a counter attack. Moreover, expecting hostility from their schools, they may behave respectfully, thereby eliciting the hostility they expect. Another example of the question we all wondered, would be, would people be cruel if ordered?
How did neither Germans conceive and implement their unconscious about father of 6 million Jews? Those evil acts occurred partly because thousands of people followed orders. They put the prisoners in trains, herded them into crowded showers and post them down with gas. How could people engage in such horrific actions? Were those individuals normal human beings? Stanley Milgram wandered, so he set up a situation where people were ordered to administer increasing the levels of electric shock to someone who was having difficulty learning a series of words as well seeing one of the sections narrowly Two thirds of the participants fully complied.
And third question would be to help or to have oneself as bags of cash tumbled from an armored truck one full day. 2 million was scattered along a columbus ohio Street. Some offer stock to help returning hundred thousand. Judging from the 1,900,000 that disappeared many more stuff to help themselves. What would you have done? What similar incidents occurred several months later in San Francisco in Toronto yourself for the same pastor by grabbed most of the money?
What situations trigger people to be helpful or really know some cultural contexts perhaps abilities in small towns? breed greater helpfulness, a common tried to run through those questions. They all deal with how people view and affect one another. And that is what social psychology is all about. Social Psychology study attitudes and beliefs, conformity and interest pendants, love and hate. After we meet short introduction, let's go in the next lesson where we will cover social psychology.
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