Social Thinking: Crash Course Psychology #37

2014-11-03

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Why do people do bad things? Is it because of the situation or who they are at their core? In this week's episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank works to shed a little light on the ideas of Situation vs. Personality. Oh, and we'll have a look at the Stanford Prison Experiment... It's alarming.

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Chapters:

Introduction: Social Psychology 00:00

Attribution Theory 01:29

Fundamental Attribution Error 2:22

Dual-Process Theory of Persuasion 3:18

"Foot-in-the-door" Phenomenon 4:14

Stanford Prison Experiment 5:13

Cognitive Dissonance Theory 8:08

Review & Credits 9:46

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