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Introductio SOCIAL n to PSYCHOLOG Y Prepared by: Adah Anadel A. Balbon, MAEd, RGC  Content 1 s 3 I KNEW IT ALL ALONG: WHAT IS SOCIAL IS SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY? PSYCHOLOGY SIMPLY...

Introductio SOCIAL n to PSYCHOLOG Y Prepared by: Adah Anadel A. Balbon, MAEd, RGC  Content 1 s 3 I KNEW IT ALL ALONG: WHAT IS SOCIAL IS SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY? PSYCHOLOGY SIMPLY COMMON SENSE? 2 WHAT ARE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY’S BIG IDEA? 4 RESEARCH METHODS: HOW DO WE DO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY?  What is Social Psychology is a science that studies how situations influence us, with special attention to how people view and affect one another. More precisely; it is the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another.  Social psychology studies our thinking, influences, and relationships by asking questions that have intrigued us all. Here are some examples: Does our social behavior depend Would people more on the be cruel if ? situations we face? ordered or on how we interpret them  ? Or To help to help ? oneself What are Social Psychology’s Big Ideas?  We construct our Social People Reality have irresistible urge to explain behavior. We want to attribute behavior to a cause and therefore make it seem orderly, predictable, and controllable. You and I may react differently to a situation because we think differently. How we react to a friend’s insult depends on whether we attribute it to hostility or to a bad day.  Our Social Intuitions Are Often Powerful but Sometimes Perilous Our instant intuitions shape fears (Is flying dangerous?), impressions (Can I trust him?), and relationships (Does he like me?). Intuitions influence presidents in times of crisis, gamblers at the table, jurors assessing guilt, and personnel directors screening applicants. Such intuitions are commonplace.  Social Influences Shape Our Behavior We are, as Aristotle long ago observed, social animals. We speak and think in words we learned from others. We long to connect, to belong, and to be well thought of. Personal Attitudes and Dispositions Also Shape Behavior Internal forces also matter. We are not passive tumbleweeds, merely blown this way and that by the social winds. Our inner attitudes affect our outer behavior. Our political attitudes influence our voting behavior. Our attitudes toward alcohol influence our susceptibility to peer pressure to drink alcohol. Our attitudes towards the poor influence our willingness to help them.  Social Behavior is Biologically Rooted If every psychological event (every thought, every emotions, every behavior) is simultaneously a biological event, then we can also examine the neurobiology that underlies social behavior. What brain areas enable our experiences of love and contempt, helping and aggression, and perception and belief? Do people who are shy (versus more socially secure) react differently seeing a friendly face? Such questions are asked by those is social  Social Psychology’s Principles are Applicable in Everyday Social Psychology has the potential to illuminate Lifethe subtle influences your life, to make visible that guide your thinking and acting. It also offers many ideas how to know yourself better, how to win friends and influence people, and how to transform closed fists to an open arm.  I knew it all along: Is Social Psychology Simply  Social Psychology phenomena are all around you; thus, many of the conclusions presented in may already have occurred to you. We constantly observe people thinking about, influencing, and relating to one another. It pays to discern what a facial expression predicts, how to get someone to do something, or whether to regard someone as a friend or foe. For centuries, philosophers, novelists, and poets have observed and commented on social behavior. Social Psychology faces two contradictory criticisms: 1.that is is trivial because it documents the obvious 2.that is dangerous because because its findings could be used to manipulate people Social Psychology faces two contradictory criticisms: 1.that is is trivial because it documents the obvious 2.that is dangerous because because its findings could be used to manipulate people  Result 1 Social psychologists have Result 2 found that, whether Social psychologists have choosing friends or falling found that, whether in love, we are most choosing friends or falling attracted to people in love, we are most whose traits are different attracted to people from our own. There whose traits are different seems to be wisdom in from our own. There the old saying “Opposites seems to be wisdom in attract.” the old saying “Birds of a feather flock together.”  t B ia s n d s i gh H i e , a ft e r l ea r n i n g h o a w n g e r a t s e e n e x a g e f o re e w - n c y to t o h a v e I - k n t e n d e b i l it y a s th s T h e n e ’ s a k n o w c r e a t e m e , o t. A l s o t b i a s out c o e d o u d s i g h t s. g t u rn n. H i n t u d e n e t h i n m e n o l o g y s (f o r so m p h e n o s y c h o i s in g lo n g a n y p s u r p r it -a ll -a f o r m in e l y t a k e b le m g e n u a l i s t s a p r o l ts a re e m e d e r s r e s u b ro n z d o s i l v e t i m e y m p i c th a n Som a t O l m e n t p l e , t h h i e v e e x a m e ir a c th ts). The point is not that common sense is predictably wrong. Rather, common sense usually is right - after the fact. We therefore easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we know and knew more than we do and did. And that is precisely why we need science to help us  Research Methods: How Do We Do Social  2 1 3 Forming Sampling Correlation and Testing and al Hypothesis Question Research: Wording Detecting Natural Association s  4 5 Experiment Generalizin al g from Research: Laboratory Searching to Life for Cause and Effect  “One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.” ― Philip Zimbardo Than ks!