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SOCIAL PSYHOLOGY LECTURE Lecture 1 ● What is social psychology ○ Scientific study ■ How people’s thoughts, feelings, and actions are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other ... people ○ How and why our thoughts,s feelings, and behaviors are shaped by our social environment ■ ABC triad ● Building blocks of social psychology ● A=AFFECT, How are emotions are affected by their social environment, feelings ● B= BEHAVIOUR, How are behavior are influenced by their social environment ● C= Cognition, why do people think the way they think? thinking ● subjective/social interpretations: based on perception, comprehension, and interpretation more important than objective properties of the social environment ● Kurt Lewin, father of experimental social psychology ● Construals: the way people interpret their social situation or environment. In our minds. ○ Naive realism: idea in what I believe in is the true position. Once people come to their senses they will start believing and behaving the way I do [Show More]

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