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Social Psychology - Coggle Diagram
Social Psychology
Influence
Psychological repercussions of climate change: natural disasters and heatwave(increase rates of child abuse, intimate partner violence, PTSD). Existential threat: anxiety, learned helplessness. Loss of resources, environmental unpredictability , and economic consequences: intergroup conflict
Climate change threats increase racism 
Climate change can feel far away and therefore not urgent
To reduce climate change: small repeated behaviors, infrequent or one-off behavior, fundamental lifestyle changes coordination others, and shift social norms
One barrier to shifting norms: pluralistic ignorance(not realizing that other people are also concerned)
Intrinsic motivation examples: attitudes towards sustainable practices, pro environmental values and morals, and fear of climate change
Extrinsic motivators examples: economic incentive and norms
Besides being motivated, people must also predict their behavior will have an impact
Climate change is complex, abstract, unintentional, a shared problem, uncertain, and politicized and therefore only a moral issue for liberals
In order to make climate change a moral imperative, we need to appeal to existing moral values, emphasize preventing burdens vs promoting benefits for future generations, and link action to positive rather than negative moral emotions
Strategies for sustainable behavior change: conveying and changing social norms, tracking consumption, introducing a little competitiveness, inducing hypocrisy, and removing small barriers
Positive spillover: doing one pro-environmental behavior leads people to make other changes
Negative spillover: doing one pro environmental behavior leads to fewer additional changes
Adopting one behavior increases intentions to adopt other behaviors(positive)
However, it very slightly decreases actual behavior change and policy support(negative).
Positive spillover is most likely when the two behaviors are similar and when the intervention targets intrinsic motivation
Correlational study, longitudinal study, and experiment with random assignment
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Social media provides teens social support, short-term distraction. and information about what is troubling them
Social comparison on social media hurts self-evaluations
Social media use is correlated with body image disturbance
Positive social feedback when you express moral outrage increases future moral outrage(reinforcement learning)
Social facilitation: people are in the presence of others and their individual performance can be evaluated, the tendency to perform better on simple tasks and worse on complex task
Deindividuation: loosening of normal constraints on behavior when people can't be identified
Conformity
Groups are useful because of shared goals and resources
Relationships help cope stress
Dyadic coping predicts relationship
satisfaction across cultures, ages, demographics, genders, and relationship
length
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Groups are useful for knowledge dissemination and accumulation, skill specialization, reasoning together, and reaction together
Groups structures by social networks. Simple contagions spread through single connection. Complex contagions require multiple contacts spread. Clustered networks reduce the spread of simple contagions but increase the spread of complex contagions
Friendship network structures in college: tight knitters, compartmentalizers, samplers
Reciprocity: become closer to people who cooperate with you
Transitivity: become closer to people who cooperate with your friends
Trust: baseline likelihood of cooperating
Informational conformity: follow those who seem to know more, follow prestigious individuals, follow similar others, follow the crowd
Informational conformity enables cumulative cultural evolution if you conform more the the majority, successful individuals, other individuals, and occasionally get outside cultural influence
Normative conformity: follow others to fit in
Descriptive norms: what people typically do in the group, based on useful or arbitrary convention, and changes in group norms
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Gossiping is an enforcing injunctive norms
Social learning: humans over imitate others' behavior
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Our moral foundations are shaped by our political identities
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