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Self and Others

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1. Intro

Social and non-social emotions

How we deal with other people? Social psychology

2. Emotion

Radical ideas

  1. Brain is the origin of mental
  2. Then where the brain comes from? Natural Selection

Where do complex things come from?

  • Creationism? The god is not perfect since some design in human is bad
  • Natural Selection

The brain is a product of evolution, this leads to a conclusion that

  1. Goal of brain is to fulfill some task
  2. Our psychology is ignorant of evolution’s view

Many psychology scene need to be explained.

  • Facial expression? Fake smile below nose. Real smile move eyes
  • Fear? From DNA, hard to fake, as the expression should be a signal, others relied on the signal
  • Kinship？Gene tends to be nice to others tends to win. Nice to kin

What means love? A great feeling about something, not only living and eating

Animals are also nice to non-kin, if someone cheat, that’s hard to know

Prisoner’s dilemma, it’s everywhere,

The BEST strategy is to be tit-for-tat

  • Nice to Nice
  • Mean to Mean

Sometime irrational approach is beneficial

  • Rational person is easily exploited
  • Person with a temper won’t be messed with

Psychology is highly related to culture

3. Social Psychology

Some are solid but some are failure and hard to replicate

For self: spotlight effect

  • Most of time, people focus on themselves
  • Most people give above average
  • Positives are result of self
  • Negatives are result of others
  • Human like support (Confirmation bias)
  • Cognitive dissonance(认知失调)
  • The more you pay, the more meaning you want to find

Self and others Attribution Theory (归因理论)

  • We try to explain, but there is a bias
  • Focus too much on personality rather than situation

Like others?

  • Familiarity, play a big role in friend and marriage
  • Similarity,
  • Attractiveness,
  • First impression
  • Pygmalion effect： people behave better when there is a expectation

Groups

  • we would categorize people and make stereotype
  • often positive
  • often accurate
  • But there are problems with stereotype
  • not always accurate
  • hard to shake
  • bad influence
  • 3 level
  • public
  • private
  • implicit

Use our mind/intelligence to fight with stereotype

4. Reflection

我们的大脑是非常容易被引导、误导的。所以我们要利用智慧去抵抗。先学习各种偏见，然后去尽量避免