Social Psychology (PY1118)

Lecture notes Social Psychology: Attribution (PY1118) Last document update:   ago

This document provides well-organized detail about attribution theory. Attribution: the process by which people use information to make inferences about the causes of their own and other people’s behaviour. 1. Internal attributions: locates the cause as being internal to the person e.g. personality, mood, attitudes, abilities or effort 2. External attribution: locates the cause as being external to the person e.g. luck, circumstances, actions of others

'What was the reason?': An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis on the views and experiences of those who have performed extra-dyadic behaviours in the past Last document update:   ago

Infidelity (cheating) is an act that is widely experienced but minimally understood. It can have severe negative consequences for people who are both directly and indirectly involved. Previous studies have identified gender, relationship quality and religion as common predictors of infidelity. However, the motivations behind people’s behaviour requires further exploration. This qualitative study sought to explore how individuals made sense of their infidelity and their reasoning for their beha...

Social psychology E-Book by Wendy Rogers Last document update:   ago

In this document, I have more or less written out all the important points of this e-book which is additional reading for my critical social psychology class