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conflict is perceived as an incompatibility of actions,

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28 year old woman who was murdered in front of an apartment complex, and her neighbors completely ignored it. they waited to see what someone else would do first

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Tendency of any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystander are present.

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An unselfish regard for the welfare of others.

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A deep, affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined

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An aroused state of intense positive absorption in another, usually present at the beginning of a love relationship.

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Similar views among individuals causes the bond of attraction to strengthen.
Similarity Breeds Content

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Once proximity affords contact, the next most important thing in attraction is physical appearance.

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Geographic nearness is a powerful predictor of friendship. Repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases their attraction (mere exposure effect).

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A principle in which frustration (caused by the blocking of an attempt to achieve a desired goal) creates anger, which can create aggression.

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The tendency of people to believe the world is just, and people get what they deserve and deserve what they get.(The just-world phenomenon)

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Prejudice provides an outlet for anger [emotion] by providing someone to blame. After 9/11 many people lashed out aginst innocent Arab-Americans
According to the Scapegoat theory of prejudice, finding someone to blame when things go wrong can provide a target for one's anger.

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Ingroup: People with whom one shares a common identity.
Outgroup: Those Percieved as different.

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Simply called "prejudgement", a prejudice is an unjustifiable (usually negative) attitude toward a group and it's members. Prejudice is ofter directed towards different cultural, ethnic, or gender groups

components of prejudice
1.  Beliefs (Sterotypes)
2. Emotions (hostility, envy, fear)
3. Predisposion to act (to discriminate)

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A mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision making group overrides the realistic appraisal of alternatives
- Attack on Peral Harbor
- Kennedy and the Cuban Missle Crisis
- Watergate Cover-up
- Chernobyl Reactor Accident

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Group Polarization enhances a group's prevailing attitudes through a discussion. If a group is like-minded, discussion strengthens its attitudes. The internet provides a medium for group polarization.

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The loss of self awareness and self-restraint in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.

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The tendency of an individual in a group to exert less effort toward attaining a common goal than when tested individually.

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Refers to improved performance on tasks in the presence of others. Triplett (1898) noticed cyclists' race times were faster when they competed against others than when they just raced against the clock.

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Individual Behavior in the Presence of Others

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Individual Behavior in the Presence of Others

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People comply to social pressures. How would they respond to outright command?

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Suggestibility is a subtle type of conformity, adjusting out behavior or thinking toward some group standard.

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Normative Social Influence: Influences resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid rejection. A person may respect normative behavior because there may be a severe price t pay if not respected
Informational Social Influence: The group may provide valuable information, but stubborn people will never listen to others.

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Humans are natural mimics. Unconsciously mimicking others' expressions, postures, and voice tones helps us feel what they are feelings.

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Compliance toward authority.

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Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.

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The greatest contribution of social psychology is it's study of attitudes, beliefs, decisions and actions and the way they are molded by social influence.

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Cognitive dissonance  Experiment:
- Boring task is your assignment.
You didn't like it, but you are told to tell people that you like it.
- Behavior is that you lied and said that it was fun.

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Considering smoking cigarettes, knows its bad, but feels like it can be fixed, like lung removal or other semi-radical acts.

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When our attitudes and actions are opposed, we experience tension. TO relieve ourselves of this tension we bring our attitudes closer to our actions.

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It is what has become known as the stanford prison experiment

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In the korean war, Chinese communists solicited cooperation from US Army perisoners by asking them to carry out cmall errands. By complying to small errands they were likely ot comply to larger ones.

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Occurs when issues do not engage systematic thinking, but rather when people are influenced by incidental cues, such as celebrity endorsements.

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when interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts. Occurs most for naturally analytical people or those involved in the issue.

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The tendency to overestimate the impact of personal disposition and underestimate the impact of the situations in analyzing the behaviors of others leads to the fundamental attribution error.

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Attribution Behavior to Persons or to Situations

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Attribution Behavior to Persons or to Situations

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A teacher may wonder whether a child's hostility reflects an agressive personality (dispostional attribution) or is a reaction to stress or abuse (a situational attribution,).

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Fritz Heider (1958) suggested that we have a tendency to give causal explanations for someones behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition.

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We cannot live for ourselves alone
social psychology scientifically studies