The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology by Lee Ross, Richard E. Nisbett

The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology



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Feb 17, 2011 - If John's desire is ultimate and is simply to help the man with his hair in flames, then it is necessary to count his desire as concerning someone other than himself, even though he is in fact the man with his hair on fire (Oldenquist 1980, pp. A scene from Forrest Gump, again, illustrates this idea well. Jan 7, 2013 - They bear on many topics from social psychology, including persuasion, people's sense of control, and the complex relationship between attitudes and behavior. Aug 14, 2013 - Studying the human experience means asking people how they feel, and those feelings are likely to vary from person to person, situation to situation, and culture to culture. Jul 30, 2007 - Personal criticism has been leveled against me as representing an excessive “situationist” perspective by 43 psychologists and 6 of their graduate student signatories in a letter to Observer Forum, June/July 2007. Play key roles in the way we respond to fictional characters. According to social psychologists, empathy allows us to experience another person's feelings (or at least reconstruct what we think that other person is going through). Their studies are focused on interpersonal situations, like whether an individual would help someone who is lying on a sidewalk. Climate change denial seems incredible to environmentalists, but from the psychological perspective, it is congruent with social identity theory and motivated reasoning. So long as the story-telling and emotional perspectives are there, Sklar says, our ability to feel emotionally for fictional characters will transcend all the other circumstantial details. After all, social psychologists have discovered that we tend to feel more empathy for others we perceive to be in need when they are similar to us in various respects and when we take on their perspective (Batson 1991; see §5b). May 30, 2013 - I spoke to Garry Crawford, Professor of Sociology at the University of Salford to get more of a sociological perspective. Mar 2, 2014 - In the case of a crowd of people watching over the individual , their presence in some ways breaks this link and prevents action Another kind of learned behavior that is obviously involved by the situation is when a person tried to help another one , but was mocked at by others This issue can be considered from different perspectives : psychodynamic behavioral , and cognitive Behaviorism attempts to explain all human behaviors in terms of reactions learned from the environment. For example, how Jones replies that there may be another psychological principle at play: the "ingroup-outgroup" concept: "People seeking a reaction will only get one if they feel they are part of the social group in which they are engaging. As soon as Excellent article Alan bringing together a good range of perspectives on the situation.

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