People have an expectation about what another person is like, which influences how they act toward that person, which causes that person to behave consistently with people’s original expectations, making the expectations come true.
Interesting how this happens and we automatically act a certain way towards people just because of the expectations we set about what that person is like.
Has this happened to you? Have your expectations about a professor influenced your impressions of them? Did you find, oddly enough, that the professor acted just as you’d expected?
This has happened to me because when I expect something from a professor, they usually act just how I imagine them to act. This is weird how this happens with a lot of different people, how they oddly enough act just as we suspect.
Fortunately, we form impressions of people quickly and effortlessly, without much conscious analysis of what we are doing. We do these things by engaging in an automatic analysis of our environments, based on our past experiences and knowledge of the world.
I find myself making assumptions and impressions about people very quickly before really knowing a lot about them. It is interesting how fast we are to analyze people.
The joy comes in unraveling the clues about the causes of interesting and important social behaviors, just as a sleuth gradually unmasks the culprit in a murder mystery. Each of us finds it exhilarating that we have the tools to provide definitive answers to questions philosophers have debated for centuries. At the same time, as seasoned researchers, we have learned to temper this exhilaration with a heavy dose of humility, because there are formidable practical and ethical constraints involved in conducting social psychological research
This reminds me of Kathryn Schulz's ted talk because she talks about the joy from exploring the uncertainty and the knowledge gained from understanding errors in life.
One explanation of this correlation is that watching TV violence causes kids to become more violent themselves. It is equally probable, however, that the reverse is true: that kids who are violent to begin with are more likely to watch violent TV
It is interesting to think that something as simple as watching TV can cause us to have certain behaviors or act a certain way.
The researcher can also examine the accumulated documents, or archives, of a culture, a technique known as an archival analysis (Mannes, Soll, & Larrick, 2014; Oishi, 2014). For example, diaries, novels, suicide notes, music lyrics, television shows, movies, magazine and news articles, advertising, social media, and the ways in which people use the internet all tell us a great deal about human behavior.
I think this would be an interesting method to use because you have a lot of different things to analyze.
Social influence shapes our thoughts and feelings as well as our overt acts, and it takes many forms other than deliberate attempts at persuasion.
I know that many people deal with social influence and many of their behaviors and the way they act are based on how others behave and act. It is interesting to think that other people and things have such a big influence on us.
The core idea is that evolution occurs very slowly, such that social behaviors that are prevalent today, such as aggression and helping behavior, are a result, at least in part, of adaptations to environments in our distant past
It is crazy that our behaviors evolve into specific behaviors because of things that have happened in our past such as trauma or important moments.
We are governed by the imaginary approval or disapproval of our parents, friends, and teachers and by how we expect others to react to us
This is interesting because I know this happens a lot with many people, we make up imaginary thoughts about what others are feeling and can start a lot of conflict that isn't really there.