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What is social psychology?

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Explains how the thought, feeling and behaviour of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others - Alport

looks at social influences on people’s psychology - social explanations of behaviour

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What does explain mean?

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To make clear
Questions which are framed in terms of why something happens
Scientific explanation - looks at causal connections and casual processes

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Are there a variety of explanations?

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There is always a number of explanations, never a single cause

social psych want to provide social explanations

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Levels of explanations Doise

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The intrapersonal level - within the persons head

The inter-personal / situational - relationships between people

The positional level - social hierchachy can explain things

The ideological level - systems of beliefs and ideas

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Ross and Nisbett - the tripod on which social psychology rests

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The principle of situationism - importance of the social context and situation

The principle of construal - not the situation, the meaning people attach to the situation

The concept of tension systems - different systems in a state of tension

+20 years later - importance of self-related processes, the way people view themselves