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What is Social Psych - Coggle Diagram
What is Social Psych
Major Perspectives
Emotion & motivation
- Integration of 'cold' cognition & 'hot' emotion & motivation
- Relationship between automatic & controllable processes
Evolutionary
- Behavioural genetics: how genes affect behaviour
- Evolutionary psychology: uses principles of evolution
Culture
- Culture: enduring system of meanings, beliefs, values, assumptions, institutions, practices shared by large group, transmitted between generations
- Cross-cultural: similarities & differences across cultures
- Multicultural: racial / ethnic groups within cultures
Behavioural economics
- Relationship to economic decision-making
Social neuroscience
- Relationship between social & neural processes
Technology / online world
- Technologies: ERP, TMS, MEG, fMRI, measurement, VR
Online: study attraction, prejudice, group dynamics
Definition
Scientific study - uses scientific method
of how individuals' - not groups
thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influenced by the
actual, imagined, or implied presence of others
Similar fields
- Sociology: group level, social -> individual level
- Clinical psych: disorders, social -> typical behaviour
- Personality: diff between individuals, social -> regardless of diff
- Cognitive: thinking, social -> in social context
Not 'common sense' - conflicting explanations, no way to test, oversimplified & misleading
Levels of Analysis
- Intrapersonal: within person (e.g. attributions)
- Interpersonal: between people, specific situation (e.g. reaction to insult)
- Positional: between people, specific situation + position outside situation considered (e.g. reaction to insult of high vs low status person)
- Ideological: between people, specific situation + social beliefs, group dynamics (e.g. effect of social norms)
- Should reflect characteristic interested in
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ABC
- Affect: feelings, emotions
- Behaviour: interactions, actions
- Cognition: thoughts
Belonging Hypothesis
Need to be with / accepted by others
= Need to belong = Need for affiliation
- Seek & maintain social contact
- Lasting, positive, significant interpersonal relationships
- Neurological basis
- Evolutionary / biological underpinnings
- Vital to wellbeing
- Strength varies between people
Ostracism
Deliberate exclusion from groups
-> depression, confused thinking, aggression, physical pain