Social psychology

There are several social fields among our daily life, such as economics, education, business, politics and etc. In this 21st Century, more or less in our life, politics becomes one of the famous issues that people always talk about somehow in Malaysia. The term “politics” is well known by the community. However, the information that we obtain in this politics field is less compare to the others field such as education and economics. This is because of politics always a sensitive issue in the…

beginning of Social Psychology, it has been a divided. The most important approaches are two: psychological social psychology (PSP) and sociological social psychology (SSP). The first one is focused on the individual and in the innate determinants of the social behaviour (individuo-centred approach). On the other hand, the second one emphasises the social dimension to the experience, and it is more concerned about the large human collectivities and the cultural determinants of the social…

The Biological, Social and Cognitive Aspects of Drug Use and Addiction Numerous studies have been conducted on the three foundational aspects of human motivation in regard to drug use and addiction. While each of the three aspects have their own results, they tie into each other overall. A study from Bechara & Damasio (2002) indicated substance dependent individuals develop a propensity to become antisocial. This evident where in the article where Bechara & Damasio (2002) stated, “Therefore, our…

Evolutionary Social Psychology Mark A. Lee Keiser University Evolutionary Psychology Dr. Sonia Troche October 21, 2015 Evolutionary Social Psychology This chapter begins with much known dilemma in psychology weather human social behavior is influenced by their biology and genes. The authors noticed that classical social psychologists criticize evolutionary psychologists and their theories and even when they accept evolutionary perspective it is taken with great reserve and…

Cognitive and Social psychology are two branches of Psychology, analysing how human internal mental processes functions and the study of human interaction, feelings and relationships within groups and individuals in society. Both branches of psychology are helpful and relevant towards communication studies. Communication studies are an academic field that processes human communication, which explores the different ways humans, negotiate and create meaning. Communication topics range from mass…

After reading into "Social Psychology of the Selfie" I summarized that a "selfie", is simply a self portrait of oneself. How a person decides to share a photo that they took and broadcast it on social media sites like (Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr) can somehow want to seek approval of other users. Social media can play a big part in a person 's self esteem and self confidence. It can either boost them or degrade it down. It can boost a person 's self esteem by another user commenting positive…

In the chapter of social psychology, deindividuation is one of the significant key terms that brings interest in the field of psychology. In most cases, everyone likes fitting in. When an individual loses its own self-awareness and see themselves as part of the crowd, this is called deindividuation. To begin, deindividuation occurs most often in an enormous group setting.With the environment as the heightened arousal, and the people around as a form of diffused responsibility, this…

connected to emotions and function through a system of “social signals: facial expressions” (Jack, Caldara, and Schyns 19). Thus, it is quite reasonable to begin to infer that emotions is closely related to micro expressions, and there is a positive correlation between these two variables to make them connected. This means that when the consistency of emotions…

The aim of this assignment is to discuss how psychology can be used in order to tackle the community issues of racial tension. Psychology can be defined as the scientific study of the human mind and its functions (Oxford, 2014), the role of a psychologist is to study mental processes and human behaviour and record how they relate to one another. Racial tension can be defined as the dislike or animosity individuals show towards other racial groups, this can be caused by ‘resentment’ when one…

Caylin Ahlf-Social Psychology Homework #2 1. According to Robert Cialdini, companies sometime advertise their products for a short period of time and then stopping selling the product. This is because, the product will become more important to us when it becomes less available and encourage people to want to buy it. An example that I have experienced would be when the gold iPhone first came out and it was only suppose to be a limited time deal. Since it was limited I wanted very badly, but I'm…