How do you think loneliness impacts a person’s mental and physical well-being? (think COVID for example).

What is Social Psychology?

What do you infer by an air hostess who gives you a big smile when you board VS a friend whose face lights up when they see you approaching?

What can you infer about someone who marries someone is obsessed with them but who refuses to cook, clean, work or take care of their children?

A girl asks their friends to give them R1, which they’ll pay back at the end of class - the first friend agrees, but the second friend refuses - what would you infer about each person's traits?

Is the behaviour due to internal (dispositional) or external (situational) factors? Justify their answer using Kelley’s Covariation Model (Consensus, Consistency, Distinctiveness).

Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE): Do we overemphasise personality traits while ignoring external factors?

Self-Serving Bias: How do we judge our own actions differently from others?

Actor-Observer Bias: When we are the actor, we blame the situation; when we are the observer, we blame personality.

Did you notice that your first assumption was often dispositional? Why do you think that happens?

Can you think of a time when you judged someone unfairly based on their behaviour?

How can understanding attribution bias help us in real-life interactions?