1. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY How we think-feel-behave In social situations Or What groups do to influence the individual

2. Origins of social psychology World War II Desire to understand atrocities of war

3. What can we learn from the Sneeches???

4. We live in a social world Established values Expectations Behavior patterns

5. It’s a small world Stanley Milgram 6 Degrees of Separation Small World Project

6. People need people Dr. Zilstein’s shock stop What would you do? Why?

7. Social Comparison Theory Leon Festinger

8. Social Perception We form judgments about the people we meet First impressions= strong and frequently lasting Based on limited information Lawyers-Professors-Teenagers-Athletes???

9. Marcia Clarke

10. If we are so often wrong- why do we rely on our impressions at all? The world can be unpredictable- We like consistency

11. How much of the environment do we actually see? Daniel Simons

12. Not Convinced? Agatha Christie

13. Attribution Our effort to understand the causes of other people’s behavior.

14. The double standard…. Dispositional AttributionExternal Attribution View others behavior as related to their internal characteristics View others behavior as related to their environment or the situation

15. Fundamental Attribution Error The tendency to see other people’s behavior as dispositional (coming from their characteristics) and to underestimate the power of the situation.

16. How we evaluate situations may be cultural…