Individual Interaction
Seeks to explain how our characteristics are influenced by interactions with others
Social psychology
ability of the person to interest you or expose you to new ideas
Stimulation Value
Intense, but may go away at any moment
Passionate Love
activities directed toward getting a job done
Task functions
claim success due to our efforts, but failure is due to things outside of our control
Self Serving Bias
looks at how we take in information about social situations
social cognition
ability to help you achieve your goals
Utility Value
generations tend to think differently about certain issues because of formative experiences
Generational identity
responses directed toward satisfying a social need
Social functions
larger group, more impersonal
Secondary groups
Most important factor in determining those around us
Proximity
ability to provide you with sympathy, encouragement, and approval
Ego-support Value
Wanting to be with someone, platonic and non-platonic
Companionate Love
DD: when a group’s members identify with the group
In groups
poor group decision making that places unity over critical thinking
groupthink
Knowledge or set of assumptions that we develop about a person or event
Schemas
attribute other behavior to internal errors, but attribute our behavior to external errors
Fundamental attribution error
marrying someone from one’s own social group
Endogamy
everyone who is not a part of the group
Out groups
DD: This is the idea that frustration or a failure to obtain something expected leads to aggression
Frustration Aggression Hypothesis
Schemas we have developed for entire groups of people
stereotype
attribute our behavior to outside circumstances
Actor-observer bias
marrying someone with similar attributes
Homogamy
group of people who interact daily, face-to-face
primary group
occurs when a person refrains from taking action because of the presence of others.
The bystander effect