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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY { Branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others DEF: the process of forming impressions of others Factors that influence perception: physical appearance, cognitive schemas, stereotypes, and subjectivity PERSON PERCEPTION We attach desirable personality characteristics to the good looking We tend to view the attractive as more intelligent Baby-faced people are seen as honest, submissive, and naïve Chameleon effect: tendency to unintentionally mimic other’s movements EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL APPEARANCE Social schemas: organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people Helps to process info COGNITIVE SCHEMAS DEF: widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics b/c of their membership in a particular group Commonly based on sex, age, ethnic, or occupational group Broad overgeneralizations; inaccurate STEREOTYPES Illusory correlation: when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association btwn social traits than they have actually seen We recall facts that fit our schemas and stereotypes SUBJECTIVITY IN PERSON PERCEPTION Helps to separate friend from foe Ingroup: a group that one belongs to and identifies with Outgroup: group that on does not belong to or identify with EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON BIAS ATTRIBUTION PROCESSES { Attributions are inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others’ behavior, and their own behavior Internal attributions: ascribe the causes of behavior to personal dispositions, traits, abilities, and feelings External attributions: ascribe the causes of behavior to situational demands and environmental constraints INTERNAL VS. EXTERNAL Harold H. Kelley Assumes that people attribute behavior to factors that are present when the behavior takes place and absent when it does not Consider 3 types of info: 1) Consistency 2) Distinctiveness 3) Consensus KELLEY’S COVARIATION MODEL Bernard Weiner Believes people often focus on the stability of the causes underlying behavior Stable-unstable dimension to attribution ATTRIBUTIONS FOR FAILURE AND SUCCESS Fundamental attribution error: observers’ bias in favor of internal attributions in explaining others’ behavior Observers may not know history of actor to make correct judgment about the behavior being seen ACTOR-OBSERVER BIAS DEF: tendency to blame victims for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way Attributes negative traits on the victim DEFENSIVE ATTRIBUTION DEF: tendency to attribute one’s success to personal factors and one’s failures to situational factors Observers attribute your failures to your internal factors; actor will blame external factors SELF-SERVING BIAS Cultural differences in individualism and collectivism Individualism: putting personal goals ahead of group goals and defining one’s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group membership Collectivism: putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defining one’s identity in terms of the groups one belongs to CULTURE & ATTRIBUTION CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS: LIKING AND LOVE { Interpersonal attraction refers to positive feelings toward another Physical attractiveness influences course of commitment Matching hypothesis: proposes that males and females of approximately equal physical attractiveness are likely to select each other as partners PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS Do “opposites attract”? NO Couples tend to be similar in almost every aspect SIMILARITY EFFECTS Reciprocity: liking those who show that they like you Flattery will get you somewhere Couples will tend to “idealize” their partner RECIPROCITY EFFECTS PERSPECTIVES ON THE MYSTERY OF LOVE { Blah, blah, blah DEF: a complete absorption in another that includes tender sexual feelings and the agony and ecstasy of intense emotion PASSIONATE LOVE DEF: warm, trusting, tolerant affection for another whose life is deeply intertwined with one’s own Divided into: Intimacy: warmth, closeness, and sharing in a relationship Commitment: intent to maintain a relationship in spite of the difficulties and costs that may arise COMPANIONATE LOVE Cindy Hazan and Phillip Shaver Attachment to caregiver as an infant translates to romantic relationships in adulthood Secure-attachment leads to secure relationships Anxious-ambivalent = intensely emotional relationships Avoidant = casual sex LOVE AS ATTACHMENT Passionate love in a romantic relationship is not a pan-cultural emphasis Arranged marriages still exist today CULTURE AND CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS