PSYC2040 - Full Notes

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LECTURE 1 – Introduction 7 Assessment 7 Weekly Overview 7 What is Social Psychology? 8 A brief history of Social Psychology 8 History of Social Psychology 9 What is Organisational Psychology? 9 Very brief history—Hawthorne Studies 10 Contemporary Organisational Psychology--Assumptions 11 LECTURE 2 – The Social Self 12 Overview 12 Where does our self-concept come from? 12 Self-Perception Theory 12 Social Comparison 12 Unique to Humans? 13 Self Presentation 13 Self-Enhancement 14 Self-Verification 16 When do we self-enhance vs self-verify? 16 Self-Regulation 16 Self-Esteem 17 Self-handicapping 20 Praise and self-handicapping 20 Self-Determination Theory 20 LECTURE 3 – Social Beliefs & Judgements 21 Thin Slices and Snap Judgments 21 Thin Slices 21 Person perception 22 Snap Judgements 22 CEOs for profit vs nonprofit organisations 22 Personality judgements based on appearance 23 What does your room or office say about your personality?? 25 Social Networking 26 Nonconscious Behavioural Mimicry 26 Priming 27 Embodiment 28 Lecture 4 – Attitudes 28 “Willing & Able Problem” 28 Cognitive Dissonance 28 Cognitive Dissonance – Justifying Effort 29 Study - Two photos of women, pick the attractive one 30 Study – people with corpus collosum severed 30 Verbal Overshadowing 30 Expressive Writing 31 Why? Emotional Labeling 31 “Willing & Able Problem” Demo 31 But do implicit attitudes predict anything? 32 Can we change implicit attitudes? 32 Biased assimilation & attitude polarization 32

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