Psych 135 Social Psychology- Parkinson UCLA

Construal example

For example, imagine you are walking down the street and in front of you someone stops, falls to the ground, grabs their chest, and starts to turn blue. You would begin to interpret this situation, running through all the possible explanations for this situation and the person's behavior.

What is a construal?

It's an individual subjective interpretation of an objective stimulus.

What are social psychologists concerned with?

Social psychologists more concerned with how situations shape behavior

What kind of science is social psychology?

empirical science

What is an important idea in social psychology?

it's not necessarily the other person's actual thoughts, feelings, or behaviors than matter in terms of what affects us. It's what we believe or what we take to be their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This is also referred to as the concept of having subjective construe tools.

What is social psychology?

the study of the impact of a person or group's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors on another person or group's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. There is a bidirectional relationship.