In many academic fields, the results of 10s of thousands of studies the conclusions of thousands of investigators and the insights of hundreds of theorists can be boiled down to a few central ideas. What concepts are on social psychology shortlist of big ideas? What themes or fundamental principles will be worth remembering? Long after you have forgotten most of the details, but we'll see it in the next few minutes of this lesson. In the picture you can see from the social psychology book of David Myers, there are neatly ordered principles this will cover in this next lesson of this section. First one is as you can see that we construct our social reality.

What does this mean? We humans have an irresistible urge to explain behavior to attribute it to some cause, and therefore to make it seem orderly, predictable and controllable. You and I may react differently to similar situations before we think differently. how we react to a friend itself depends on whether we attribute it hostility or to a bad day. We're all intuitive scientists, we explain people's behavior, usually with enough speed and accuracy to suit our daily needs. When someone's behavior is consistent and distinctive, we attribute that behavior to his or her personality.

For example, if you observe someone who makes refitted snide comments, you infer that this person has a nasty disposition, and then you might try to avoid a person. our beliefs about ourselves also matter. Do we have an optimistic outlook? Do we see ourselves as in control of things, though, we view ourselves as relatively superior or inferior, our influence our emotions and actions, how we control the world and ourselves matters? second principle is that our social intuitions are often powerful, but something's perilous. I always think intuitions shape our thinking Yours for example question ease flying dangerous impressions as Can I press team and relationships such as that she liked me.

Intuition. Influence presidents in times of crisis gamblers activity table interviewers assessing your personnel directors screening applicants, substitutions are commonplace. Indeed, psychological science reveals a fascinating unconscious mind and intuitive backstage mind that Freud never told us about. More than psychologists realize until recently, thinking cures offstage out of sight. Our intuitive capacities are evoked by studies of what the leader chapters will explain. Automatic processing implicit memory heuristics continue street inference, instant emotions and nonverbal communication, thinking memory and attitude all operates in two levels, one conscious and deliberate and the other unconscious and automatic dual processing today's research forward.

We know more than we know. We know No intuition is huge, but intuition is also perilous. An example would be that as we cruise through life mostly on automatic pilot, we intuitively judge the likelihood of things by how easily various instances come to mind. Especially since September 11 2000. More people carry readily available mental images of plane crashes. Does most people fear flying more than driving and many will drive great distances.

So avoid risking the skies actually, were many times safer per mile traveled in a commercial plane and then in a motor vehicle. Will social indications then are no 40 for both through your powers and your perils? by reminding us of infusions, gifts and alerting us to these pitfalls, social psychologies into fortify our thinking. In most situations, fast and frugal snap judgments serve us well enough, but the others where accuracy matters, as when needing to fear the right things and spend our resources accordingly. We had vast restraints impulsive infusions with critical thinking. Next principle would be that social influences shape our behavior.

We are as Aristotle long ago observe social animals we speak and think in words we learn from others. We belong to connect, to belong and to be well thought of, as social creatures responds to our immediate context. Sometimes the power of a social situation leads us to act, contrary to our Express article in the powerful evil situation sometimes overwhelm good intentions in using people who agree with false hopes or comply with cruelty. Other nasm implants, many decent seeming people became instruments of the Holocaust, other situations may elicit great generosity and compassion. After the 911 cat dystrophy, New York City was overwhelmed with the nation's the food, clothing and help from eager volunteers.