Social Thought and Social Behaviour

Topics

• Social cognition

  • Kelley’s attribution theory
  • Attribution biases

• Social influence

  • Groups and group formation
  • Social facilitation, loafing and polarisation
  • Conformity and Asch’s study
  • Obedience and Milgram’s experiment

Learning objectives

1. Explain a group behaviour using conformity or obedience research.