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Studying the way people relate to others.
Attitude Attraction Aggression Group Behavior
Physical Appearance Judgments frequently made based on
appearance- more positive qualities to those better looking WHY?
“Beauty is more than just in the eye of the beholder; people do judge & treat others with whom they interact based on attractiveness” (Langlois et al. 2000)
1977 Study- Impact of Beauty & It’s Self-Fulfilling Nature
5 Factors of Attraction
• Physically attractiveness predicts dating frequency (they date more).
• Matching Hypothesis
• 1990 Study of Average Faces
• http://www.faceresearch.org/demos/average
Obesity is so revered among Mauritania's white Moor Arab population that the young girls are sometimes force-fed to obtain a weight the government has described as "life-threatening".
Geographic nearness
Mere exposure effect:
Repeated exposure to something breeds liking.
You are more likely to like someone who likes you.
Why?
Opposites do NOT attract.
Birds of the same feather do flock together.
Similarity breeds content.
• Tries to explain how people determine the cause of the behavior they observe.
It is either a….• Situational
Attribution (external)• Dispositional
Attribution (Internal)
• Tries to explain how people determine the cause of the behavior they observe.
It is either a….• Situational Attribution• Dispositional
AttributionAnd • Stable Attribution• Unstable Attribution
Fundamental Attribution Error
Self-Serving Bias
Individualistic V. Collectivistic Cultures
Stereotype:• Overgeneralized
idea about a group of people; type of social schema
Prejudice:• Biased attitude;
Ethnocentrism is an example of a prejudice.
Discrimination:• Biased action.
1. Thought-saving device2. Operant Conditioning3. Observational Learning4. Just World
Phenomenon- world is just and people deserve what they get
5. In-Group versus Out-Groups; In-Group Bias
A class divided
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
A prediction that causes itself to be true.
Contact Theory• Contact between hostile groups will reduce
animosity if they are made to work towards a superordinate goal.