Social Psychology
Introduction: What is Social Psychology?
Person Perception: Forming Impressions of Other People
• Social Categorization: Using Mental Shortcuts in person Perception
Attribution: Explaining Behavior
• The Self-Serving Bias: Using Explanations to meet Our Needs
The Social Psychology of Attitudes
• The Effect of Attitudes on Behavior
• The Effect of Behavior on Attitudes: Fried Grasshoppers for Lunch?!
Understanding Prejudice
• From Stereotypes to Prejudice: In-groups and Out-groups
• Overcoming Prejudice
Conformity: Following the Crowd
• Factors influencing Conformity
• Culture and Conformity
Obedience: Just Following Orders
• Milgram’s Original Obedience Experiment
• The Results of Milgram’s Original Experiment
• Conditions That Undermine Obedience: Variations on a Theme
• Asch, Milgram, and the Real World: Implications of the Classic Social Influence Studies
Altruism and Aggression: Helping and Hurting Behavior
• Factors that Increase the Likelihood of Bystanders Helping
• Factors the Decrease the Likelihood of Bystanders Helping
• Aggression: Hurting Behavior
The Influence of Groups on Individual Behavior
• Social Loafing: When Individual Effort is “Lost in the Crowd”
• Social Facilitation: Individual performance in the Presence of Others
• Deindividuation: When Groups Members Feel Anonymous
PSYCH FOR YOUR LIFE: The Persuasion Game