Course Notes First Midterm
Art of Persuasion
Credibility
Attractiveness
Flattery
Repetition
Rapid speech
Length
Fear
2-sides
Art of Deception
Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis
Niccolo Machiavelli
Social psychology
The study of how people feel, think, behave and interact within a social context
Read chapter 1 and 2
Reading textbook and attending lectures is essential
Research Methods in Social Psychology
Human Intuition
Individuals are more likely to break up or divorce when separated
Out of sight out of mind
Birds of a feather flock together, trumps “opposites attracts”
Evolutionary Theory
Individuals produce more offspring than can survive
Individuals in a population vary in form, function and behavior and much of that variation is heritable
Some forms of these heritable traits improve an individual’s chances of survival and reproduction
Absence of evidence doesn’t mean evidence of absence
Weird
Western
Educated
Industrialized
Rich
Democratic
Hadzaland
About 30 individuals
Membership is very fluid
Sexual division of labor, women gather berries, men hunt
Food is shared fairly evenly among all camp members
Egalitarian
Office Hours
Room C3-A, Solomon Lab Building
Tues 11-12 or by appointment
Lowest in-class exam grade will be dropped
Hard copies of papers due at beginning of class
Do not email papers
4 points deducted each day paper is late
observational research useful for generating hypotheses provides information in natural setting however, it sometimes yields biased results survey research inexpensive, large numbers (participants and variables) sometimes yields biased results difficult to be unobtrusive cannot establish cause and effect correlational research examine large number of variables provide information about the degree of the relationship but cannot establish cause and effect correlation is not causation self selection a problem that arises when the participant rather than the
Credibility
Attractiveness
Flattery
Repetition
Rapid speech
Length
Fear
2-sides
Art of Deception
Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis
Niccolo Machiavelli
Social psychology
The study of how people feel, think, behave and interact within a social context
Read chapter 1 and 2
Reading textbook and attending lectures is essential
Research Methods in Social Psychology
Human Intuition
Individuals are more likely to break up or divorce when separated
Out of sight out of mind
Birds of a feather flock together, trumps “opposites attracts”
Evolutionary Theory
Individuals produce more offspring than can survive
Individuals in a population vary in form, function and behavior and much of that variation is heritable
Some forms of these heritable traits improve an individual’s chances of survival and reproduction
Absence of evidence doesn’t mean evidence of absence
Weird
Western
Educated
Industrialized
Rich
Democratic
Hadzaland
About 30 individuals
Membership is very fluid
Sexual division of labor, women gather berries, men hunt
Food is shared fairly evenly among all camp members
Egalitarian
Office Hours
Room C3-A, Solomon Lab Building
Tues 11-12 or by appointment
Lowest in-class exam grade will be dropped
Hard copies of papers due at beginning of class
Do not email papers
4 points deducted each day paper is late
observational research useful for generating hypotheses provides information in natural setting however, it sometimes yields biased results survey research inexpensive, large numbers (participants and variables) sometimes yields biased results difficult to be unobtrusive cannot establish cause and effect correlational research examine large number of variables provide information about the degree of the relationship but cannot establish cause and effect correlation is not causation self selection a problem that arises when the participant rather than the