1. Chapter 13
Social Psychology

2. Person Perception: Forming Impressions of Others
Effects of physical appearance
Cognitive/social schemas
Stereotypes
Subjectivity in person perception
Illusory correlation
Evolutionary perspectives
Ingroup - outgroup

4. Attribution Processes: Explaining Behavior
Attributions
Internal vs. External
Attributions in success and failure
Biases in attributions
Fundamental attribution error
Defensive attribution
Self-serving bias – credit self for success, blame situation for failure
Cultural influences
Individualism – collectivism

6. Close Relationships: Liking and Loving
Key factors in attraction
Physical attractiveness
Matching hypothesis
Similarity, Reciprocity
Perspectives on love
Hatfield & Berscheid – Passionate vs. Companionate love
Sternberg – Intimacy, commitment, & passion
Hazen & Shaver – love as attachment
Attachment styles – attachment anxiety/avoidance
Evolutionary perspectives
Mating priorities
Mate poaching – Buss
Internet and close relationships

8. Attitudes and Attitude Change
3 components
cognitive, affective, and behavioral
Factors in changing attitudes
persuasion
source, message, channel, and receiver
Theories of attitude change
Learning theory
Classical conditioning and advertising
Dissonance theory – Festinger & Carlsmith (1959)
Self-perception theory
Elaboration likelihood model

13. Yielding to Others: Conformity
Conformity – Solomon Asch (1950s)
Group norm behavior
Classic experiment
Group size
Group unanimity
Compliance
Conforming to requested behavior
Foot-in-door
Door-in-the-face

14. Yielding to Others: Obedience
Obedience – Stanley Milgram (1960s)
Controversial landmark experiment – Figure 16.16
65% gave highest shock level
Many variations of basic experiment
“I was just following orders”
presence of a dissenter

15. Behavior in Groups: The Power of the Situation
Social Roles
Gender Roles
Stanford Prison Study

16. Behavior in Groups: The Influence of Other People
The bystander effect - Darley and Latane (1968)
Diffusion of responsibility
Group productivity and social loafing
Decision making in groups
Group Polarization
Groupthink
Bay of Pigs
NASA Shuttle disaster

19. Understanding Prejudice
Prejudice as an attitude
Prejudice and discrimination
Bias attribution of success and failure
Group competition – Sherif et al. (1961) study – field experiment
Ingroups and outgroups
Threats to social identity