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Social Psychology

Social Psychology. PGS 350. Social Psychology. Scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of others (Allport). RELATIONSHIPS. Why do we like some people and dislike others?. What causes the feeling of love?.

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Social Psychology

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  1. Social Psychology PGS 350

  2. Social Psychology Scientific study ofhow people’s thoughts, feelings, andbehaviors areinfluenced by the real or imagined presence ofothers(Allport)

  3. RELATIONSHIPS Why do we like some people and dislike others?

  4. What causes the feeling of love? Is love found across cultures and historical periods?

  5. Is love unique to human beings?

  6. Why are family bonds so powerful?

  7. Which sex pushes for sexual intimacy earlier in relationships?

  8. Is this sex difference unique to our culture?

  9. How important is physical attractiveness in relationships?

  10. Are there universal features that make someone beautiful or handsome?

  11. Or does it depend completely on culture?

  12. What causes romantic relationships to break up?

  13. When clownfish males grow up, they turn into females –> The reverse happens to closely related damselfishes –> Females later turn into males. Does anything like this apply to humans?

  14. Prosocial Behavior • Is Altruism part of human nature? • Why do we sometimes refuse to help others who need our help? Save The Children

  15. Osceola McCarty Washerwoman for 75 yrs Saved her meager earnings Donated $150,000 to Univ. of Southern Mississippi Why are some people more altruistic than others?

  16. Osceola after winning Presidential Citizen’s Medal:"People tell me now that I am a hero...I am nobody special. I am a plain, common person...no better than anybody else...I don't want to be put up on a pedestal; I want to stay right here on the ground.” Venus after chiding Clinton:“What? I’m not really intimidated by anyone. Why should I be?”

  17. What is more important in determining your social behavior: • kind ofPERSONyou are? • or your SITUATION? • or theINTERACTIONof the two?

  18. RAC K ETEERIN G IN F LUENCED AN D C ORRU P T O R GANIZ A TION S ( RIC O) - M URDER (1 8 C O UNT S) , C O NS P I R ACY TO CO MM IT M URDER , C O NS P I R ACY TO CO MM IT EXTO R TION , NAR C OTIC S DI S TRIBUT I ON , CON SP IRA C Y T O C O M M IT M ONE Y LA U NDERIN G; EXTORTI O N ; M ONEY LA U NDERIN G U. Mass. President William Bulger Former President of Massachusetts State Senate

  19. AGGRESSION

  20. What do these mass murderers have in common? • Which sex is more likely to kill their own small children?

  21. Oct. 5, 1789: Thousands of armed women storm Versailles Palace, behead Marie Antoinette’s bodyguard

  22. Is violence part of human nature? • Does watching violent TV and movies make us more aggressive, or less so?

  23. Social Learning view: Your aggressiveness is a function of rewards and punishments from parents, teachers, media

  24. Movies, TV, and song lyrics give us information about the social value of aggressiveness • Blame it on MTV

  25. Evolutionary view: • Aggression based in genetic dispositions that helped our ancestors survive. • blame DNA- not MTV.

  26. Robert Sapolsky “I joined the baboon troop during my twenty-first year. I had never planned to be a savanna baboon when I grew up…”

  27. PREJUDICE Buford Furrow, 37, member of Aryan Nation neo-Nazi group, walked into a Jewish community center summer camp on Aug. 7, 1999, shot 3 children, 2 adults, later killed a Filipino postal worker. Does prejudice stem from emotional disorder or just normal cognitive processes?

  28. • What can be done to reduce prejudice?

  29. IMPRESSION FORMATION How accurate are we in deciding what friends or roommates or political candidates are really like?

  30. SELF-PRESENTATION Can you predict hairstyles, attitudes or auto choices from someone’s musical taste?

  31. What tactics do we use to make impressions on others? How effective are those tactics?

  32. Cindy Jackson at high school graduation, 1973. Cindy Jackson in 1993, after 19 operations Goal - to look like a living Barbie doll

  33. Judy Loveless, 49 yr. old flight attendant, died during outpatient laser surgery to reduce skin wrinkles. Women around world had 10.5 million cosmetic procedures in 2006 -- about 10 times more than men. Why the sex difference?

  34. SOCIAL COGNITION Do your cognitive biases lead you to a hopelessly distorted view of what you are like? Can your beliefs about yourself and about other people actually change the social world you live in?

  35. ATTITUDES & PERSUASION • What tricks do advertisers & politicians & salespeople & phone solicitors use on us?

  36. ATTITUDES & PERSUASION Any way to protect ourselves from these propagandists’ tricks?

  37. ATTITUDES & PERSUASION

  38. SOCIAL INFLUENCE What factors lead us to obey or disobey authority?

  39. What factors lead us to go along with crowd vs act independently?

  40. Could any circumstances lead you to join a cult like the Branch Davidians, & then to sacrifice your own life, and that of your child, on the leader’s orders? David Koresh, Branch Davidian leader

  41. GROUP DYNAMICS

  42. GROUP DYNAMICS Ever done something in a group you’d never do alone?

  43. Are you likely to do better or worse work in a group setting?

  44. GROUP DYNAMICS What makes some people good vs. bad leaders?

  45. ENVIRONMENT & SOC. BEH. How do environmental factors affect: • Aggression? • Sexual behavior? • Depression & Anxiety?

  46. ENVIRONMENT & SOC. BEH. 1950 -World pop.- 2,555,360,972 Sunday, Aug. 22, 1999 World pop. = 6,016,326,230 • 1st year to break 6 billion Wed., Aug. 12, 2009 World pop. = 6,777,234,018 (increase in 10 yr. > 761 million)

  47. ENVIRONMENT & SOC. BEH. U.S. pop. 1900:76,094,000 1948: 146,631,302 August, 2009: 307,157,477

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