Introduction to social psychology
Psychology-Introduction to social psychology
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Chapter 1- Introduction Characterizing Social Psychology -Explaining Behaviour -Comparing Social Psychology to Related Disciplines -Proximal and Distal Influences in Social Psychology -2 distal influences recognized more recently: evolution and culture. -Social psychology differs from all other social sciences in that its chief investigative tool is the experiment.
The Power of the Situation (proximal factor) -Hanna Arendt; described Adolf Eichmann (architext of Holocaust). -Kurt Lewin (1930s), founder of modern social psych, Jewish Berliner who fled Nazi Germany in 1930s, became professor at Uni Iowa and later at MIT. Physicist turned psychologist, applied physical intuition to psychology. Believed behaviour of people is always function of field of forces ( = social situation), personal attributes interacting with situation. Main situational influences (often overlooked) are the action...
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