Psychology In Social Psychology

Social psychology focuses on the cause and effect relationship between individuals. According to Lilienfeld (2014), it reviews how environments, circumstances, or other people could have positively or negatively impacted a person’s behavior, attitude, and belief (p. 496). It focuses on human attitudes in areas such as social influences, interpersonal processes, and prejudice. Social psychology generally helps us to understand social influences, or why people act a certain way in presence of other people. This can be seen circumstance such as showing your good characteristics to your crush on the first date, or you would work more efficiently under the surveillance of your manager. Also, it takes interpersonal processes into consideration such

Similarly, social psychology studies prejudice and stereotyping to explain our judgments toward a certain group of people or an individual.

As mention earlier, social psychology studies the interpersonal processes of an individual such as bystander-nonintervention. Bystander-nonintervention occurs when a person watches a victim getting disadvantages or someone getting advantages without intervene in the situation. There are two factors that can explain bystander-nonintervention containing pluralistic ignorance and diffusion of responsibility. Pluralistic ignorance refers to a phenomenon in which individuals guess wrongly about a group’s beliefs and values (Lilienfeld, 2014, p. 515). Diffusion of responsibility happens when the presences of others are large; each individual will feel less responsibility burden because they assumed the responsibility is shared among them (Lilienfeld, 2014, p. 515). An example of bystander-nonintervention is the nightclub beating outside a Santa Ana nightclub. According to the article “Women in Crosby Trial Convicted in

For example, students that volunteered, or participated in a community service organization are sometimes genuine out of empathy to others. This can be supported by altruism, which involves helping others for unselfish reasons (Lilienfeld, 2014, p. 517). According to the article “Volunteering/Community Service”, the author stated, “young people who volunteered for environmental organizations generally did so to help other people (52%)”. This demonstrates the concept of altruism because young volunteers did it out of unselfish interests and that they did so to help others. The article continues to describe strategies that can be utilize to increase the number of young people to volunteer essentially reaching out to them, showing them role models, and discussing the experiences of volunteering with them. Also, students engage in volunteer work can be due to situational influences. They are more likely to help in community service when they have spare time than when their schedule is