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An Introduction of Social Psychology Friday, July 31, 2015 @ 8:49 AM Hi. An Overview Today was our first class of Social Psychology with Miss Hanis Japri, our previous lecturer for Work and Motivation subject. At the first place, we were wondering what kind of subject it was because our senior did not have to take it because it is a new subject. Some of us started to protest because it is not fair but I am sure after having the first lecture all my friends including me would feel enthusiastic and motivated to learn more about this course. When the word SOCIAL comes across my mind, it surely must be about the society while for PSYCHOLOGY it is the study of human mind and behavior. My first interpretation about Social Psychology is the study of society’s mind and behavior however the general definition of social psychology is our behavior influence by the presence attitudes, feelings and other (society /environment). In scientific view, it is a scientific field that seeks to understand the nature and causes of individual behavior and thought in social situation. After learning the definition itself, I realized that this course actually aims to discover how individual behaves based on the presence of the others (other factors). In this life, we are shaped by what are surrounding us such as other people’s actions, feelings and the attitudes. From my experience, in my family particularly, I noticed that how I behave is influenced by my family surrounding especially my dad. Among the three siblings my attitude is like my father as I am more closer with my dad. He is very cautious about money and he do not like to waste money buying something that is not beneficial for the future and something that is used just for fun. What I can see from my father’s behavior, I have all that things. I become miserly and cautious in spending money at the young age where I bet young generation like me are not concerned about it and every time I want to buy something even though I want it so much I will not simply buy it. I will definitely think twice or perhaps more than that. Before this I just thought about the genetic influence from my dad to me but now I know it is because of the theory in social psychology where my behavior is significantly influenced by his behavior. Next, the way we speak to each other also depends on how others speak to us and build up our social identity. This is my first experience where I use my name rather than use ‘I’ (aku). First time I used my name, it was very awkward to mention my name by myself as before this I kept thinking negatively that I felt annoyed with the relationship that have name-calling in it. But then I have to adapt with my surrounding because majority of my new friends used the name-calling and I just did not realize when it became a nature in our friendship . For some people this might be a minor example but from this obvious situation we can see that social psychology actually relates to us in every single aspect of our daily lives especially in family relationship and friendship as it influences our behavior and helps us to conform our identity. Let us explore the extraordinary world of Social Psychology! (Nor Afifah Aziz) Core Values of Social Psychology The importance of core values is not only essential for scientist in doing their research but also important to all people to ensure validity and reliability of information we received. For example, I would like to emphasize a recent case occurred in Malaysia specifically in Lowyat which involved a group of man and seller of oppo smart phone. Within several days, the news turns out to be racial incident topic thus this brawl appear to be hot topic. The reason of this consequence happened because most of Malaysian citizen tend to believe in what they heard without searching the truth. In reality according to the official news berita harian, the incident happened after a man found that he got deceived and was given fake device by the seller of oppo phone. There is nothing to do with racial incident argument. Supposedly, we have to be skepticism and refuse to believe conclusions without strong verification. Next, one of the core values in the study of social psychology is open-minded. In conducting a research one must ready to accept others’ evidence as valid although it may be clashed with one’s initial. In this world, there are many countries like Netherlands, Iceland and Denmark support gay marriage which allow freedom to marry with the same sex. When I watched a video, Ellen Lee DeGeneres revealed about her life experience which she married with her partner Portia de Rossi because she want someone that understand her the most. She believed that Rossi love and comforts her better than her male friends and boyfriends. Then, I try not to judge her opinion because she has her own reason for doing that. (Wan Rawanis) Accuracy is also one of the core values that is applicable to use in our daily life. When we heard some rumours about an issue, we should gather and evaluate all the information that we got to analyse whether the information is true or not. As we view our society today, they like to spread rumours about an issue in social media like ‘twitter’ and ‘facebook’, and other people tends to believe that without making any research about that issue. Sometimes, I also be the one who believe about the news without find any evidence about the validity of the story. But after I studied about accuracy, I realized that I should make a research before believing the rumours that I heard. For the example, Malaysian was shocked with the news of debris of a plane was found near Madagascar. Malaysian thought that the debris was belong to the plane of MH370 as that plane had missing for a year. People tends to post about that on ‘twitter’ and ‘facebook’ by saying, the debris of MH370 had found, but the case is still in investigation. We as a people that heard about that should not believe 100% of the rumours as it still in investigation and we should not spread that to other people. We should wait until the investigation is finish before we jumped into any conclusion that made by ourselves. The last core values that can be used in our daily life is objectivity. In objectivity, we should minimize bias while obtaining and evaluating the all the information that we get to complete our research. People nowadays like to be biased on every single thing that they heard and knew. If we want to know the validity of a news, we should avoid any prejudice or stereotyping in order to minimize the bias in ourselves. In my personal life, I as a man tends to disagree everything that I learnt and heard about feminist without making any further research about it. I believe that other man also have the same mentality as me by thinking that feminist is irrelevant to be learnt and ignore it without trying to understand the objective of learning about it. But now, I realized that by minimize prejudice and stereotyping about women, I can find the real objective why I learnt about it other than I got new information about women’s life. This objectivity is very crucial in conducting research and to be applied in our daily life. (Nurul Afiqah) Fundamental Principles of Social Psychology Bruce Lee once said that ‘ obey principles without being bound to them’. In Social Psychology, there are basically 5 fundamental principles that have been the core of this significant subject and have been used since people first established it. These principles act as a firm stand in Social Psychology that needs to be understood clearly in order to comprehend ourselves about the nature of Social Psychology. These principles can also be significantly related to situation in our daily lives and reflected the ways we socialise with people around us. The first principle we would like to point out is social interaction. We bet everyone is also able to guess that social psychology is all about the society and environment as it has the term ‘social’ in it. Indeed, social psychology is truly about understanding what society is all about. Social interaction denotes the way we interact with people. From what we have understood, social interaction is a must in our daily lives; we communicate and interact with people on daily basis to convey information. As we can see in the real world, social interaction can happen in a lot ways and it is no longer limited to face-to-face interaction. We communicate on social medias; Facebook,Twitter, Instagram and Skype. We believe interaction is not only restricted to verbal messages but also nonverbal messages. The ways people post pictures on Instagram, Tweet on Twitter and sometimes post videos on youtube can also be the mediums where people use to communicate their feelings, express their ideas and impose their ideologies. On Instagram, people post pictures of the with captions that portay the information they want to convey to their followers. If they are disappointed or sad, they would write captions that tell people that they are having a bad day or they are having a severe fever or etc. The next principle,I would say is a bit correlated with the first principle and it is cognitive processes. What can be extracted from cognitive processes is the method the information is received. The way we judge and extract the information that is being conveyed by the people we are interacting with actually includes in cognitive processes. We somehow notice that emotions, biasness, discrimination and prejudice somehow affect the way we receive the information. An example that we would like to point out is when a person strongly believes in white superiority will definitely tend to believe that Black’s movement to seek for racial equality is stupid and irrelevant. And for people who believe in LGBT movement that seeks for marriage equality tend to express emotions such as anger and hatred when they encounter with people who are homophobic (having a wide range of negative attitudes towards homosexuality) because they believe the belief they are holding to is completely right. Another obvious example can be seen when a guy is misogynistic ( having the belief that men are more superior than women), he will tend to perceive feminism as a stupid movement to seek for gender equality. That means he is somehow biased because of his gender. The third major principle is environmental variables. This principle stresses out that the physical world does impact our behaviour such as the weather, smell and noise. We notice that our acts are significantly influenced by the condition of physical world. For example, we tend to be more hot-tempered when the weather is hot. This is due to the uncomfortability that has caused by the extreme weather makes us easier to get angry even over small matters . Getting angry over silly things such as ‘why is the drink so hot?!’ ‘why is the cat sleeping in front of the door?!’ and ‘ why are those people staring at us like we’ve just killed people?!” are the examples of small matters people get angry at when they are particularly not comfortable with the weather. And when we are at a place that has a very unpleasant smell probably because it is situated nearby a rubbish dump, we tend to feel dizzy and uneasy and that affects our behavior. We tend to behave negatively and we do not feel like talking to people and sometimes we feel a bit emotional due to the unfomfortability that is caused by the smelly smell. The fourth major principle is cultural context which relates the norms and cultural transmission of the society we are living in to our behaviors. The way we were taught and instilled with the norms and cultures of the society we grew up in actually does have a huge impact on our behavior. All of us are basically Malays and we somehow taught that Chinese people actually took our rights as the natives of this country and that is why they are economically more successful than the Malays. As we grew older, we then realized that it is just a stereotype which generalizes that Chinese are oppressive towards Malays. Comparatively, we can observe that some Malays are too lazy to improve their quality or well-being of their lives because they are way too comfortable with their current lives and they disregard what is going to happen in the future (the value of Malaysian Ringgit declines or political instability happens), and perhaps that is why they are economically far behind Chinese in our country. Malay is also proven to be one of the races in Malaysia that has the highest number of drug addicts and crime cases recorded. Besides, in Malay, there is also a belief that claims ‘Women belong in the kitchen’. In our perspective, we believe that it is completely a misogynistic and sexist statement that downgrades women. It means that no matter how successful a woman is, she will definitely end up in the kitchen. Feminism somehow greatly opposes this notion because it somehow means women have a lower rank than men in the society. Women should be free to choose what they want to be in their lives and they can be more successful than men if they want to. ‘Women belong in the kitchen’ reflects that women have a limitation to achieve what they are looking forward for in life. The last major principle would be the biological factors. Indeed, people might not see biological factors as the main influence of human behaviors but they actually do. Biological factors might also not affect human behaviors entirely but it does have a small influence in the way we behave or socialize in the environment or society we live in. Genetically, we inherited genetic components or materials from our parents and hence, it is not something peculiar if we possess attitudes that are more or less similar to them. From what I (Shazrul) concern, my parents are so approachable and they can talk to newly-met strangers for hours like they have known them for 10 years. And surprisingly I am also an approachable person and I perceive myself as person who easily gets comfortable with new people I meet. I do not feel awkward to disclose to people whom I have just met . Often we see that abusive parents who abuse their children regularly (physically or mentally) will definitely develop abusive behaviors in their children. The children will perhaps abuse their children as revenge towards their parents who once abused them when they were children. They tend to be more aggressive and hot-tempered t compared to children whose parents are gentle and caring. (Mohamad Shazrul Hafiz Suhaime) Research Method : Rethinking The Psychology of Tyranny; BBC Prison Study by Haslam and Reicher The BBC Prison study uses several research methods which are field investigation and pilot study. Field investigation is actually an experiment that is conducted in a natural environment of the participants but the situations are artificially set up. Personally, I used this type of method several times towards a few of my girlfriends. Every day, my girlfriends and I always have dinner at 8 together but as usual, only a few can make it on time. Since we are a bunch of cold hearted girls, we’ll just leave the late comers and go grab our food first. There was this particular day when one of the late comers says that she will follows up later but then changes her mind. she asked us to bring back the food she ordered and I replied her whatsapp by saying that I do not want to order her food and that she should come and get it herself. My friends asked me to give that kind of fake respond because we want to see her reaction. We concluded that she is a sensitive girl based on her final respond. After a few minutes, we told her that we are joking and testing an experiment on her. Secondly, the pilot study is where the researcher selects a few people and tries to study them. I had used this method during high school when I gang up with my friends to brainwash a few of problematic students (based on reports from other student and amount of demerit they did). As a member of disciplinary board, we were so passionate to carry out our full responsibilities and corrected problematic students. During the brain wash sessions, we asked many questions and as a final result, all the misunderstanding and ambiguity were solve. Basically, even though all these research methods seem to exist only in the textbook, we actually do practices all the methods when conducting our daily life or while facing certain situation. (Siti Hana Diyana) Conclusion Whether we realize it or not, social psychology is a part of our life because it shapes most of our behaviour. People are connected with each other as each of us is influenced by one another. This is because the concept of social identity and conformity lead us to follow what our society does. There are a few principles under social psychology that are being applied in our daily life such as biological factor, social interaction, cognitive process, environmental, and cultural context. Each of these aspects will shape us according to the law of social psychology itself and determine what kind of behaviour that we have. The Social psychology have provided a few guidelines for us to study or conduct research about a wide range of topic with a set of core values included skepticism, open minded, objective and accuracy. These set of core values of social psychology can be practised in our daily life when we want to interpret or analysis a certain behaviour that we see and follow the ethics of core value to accomplish our work. Besides observing our behaviour and other people, we also need to consider the method that we use to conduct an experiment or a case study. The method that we use will affect the results for our study and data that will be collected. It also gives us an idea that our action or behavior that we will take in our daily life will have their own consequences. Last but not least, social psychology helps us to understand more on how people’s behaviours are greatly influenced by other factors and by discovering this course more deeply we can recognise ourselves better. *"No very sharp line can be drawn between Social Psychology and Individual Psychology"- George H. 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An Introduction of Social Psychology

Friday, July 31, 2015 @ 8:49 AM

Hi.

An Overview

Today was our first class of Social Psychology with Miss Hanis Japri, our previous lecturer for Work and Motivation subject. At the first place, we were wondering what kind of subject it was because our senior did not have to take it because it is a new subject. Some of us started to protest because it is not fair but I am sure after having the first lecture all my friends including me would feel enthusiastic and motivated to learn more about this course.

When the word SOCIAL comes across my mind, it surely must be about the society while for PSYCHOLOGY it is the study of human mind and behavior. My first interpretation about Social Psychology is the study of society’s mind and behavior however the general definition of social psychology is our behavior influence by the presence attitudes, feelings and other (society /environment). In scientific view, it is a scientific field that seeks to understand the nature and causes of individual behavior and thought in social situation.

After learning the definition itself, I realized that this course actually aims to discover how individual behaves based on the presence of the others (other factors). In this life, we are shaped by what are surrounding us such as other people’s actions, feelings and the attitudes. From my experience, in my family particularly, I noticed that how I behave is influenced by my family surrounding especially my dad. Among the three siblings my attitude is like my father as I am more closer with my dad. He is very cautious about money and he do not like to waste money buying something that is not beneficial for the future and something that is used just for fun. What I can see from my father’s behavior, I have all that things. I become miserly and cautious in spending money at the young age where I bet young generation like me are not concerned about it and every time I want to buy something even though I want it so much I will not simply buy it. I will definitely think twice or perhaps more than that. Before this I just thought about the genetic influence from my dad to me but now I know it is because of the theory in social psychology where my behavior is significantly influenced by his behavior. Next, the way we speak to each other also depends on how others speak to us and build up our social identity. This is my first experience where I use my name rather than use ‘I’ (aku). First time I used my name, it was very awkward to mention my name by myself as before this I kept thinking negatively that I felt annoyed with the relationship that have name-calling in it. But then I have to adapt with my surrounding because majority of my new friends used the name-calling and I just did not realize when it became a nature in our friendship .

For some people this might be a minor example but from this obvious situation we can see that social psychology actually relates to us in every single aspect of our daily lives especially in family relationship and friendship as it influences our behavior and helps us to conform our identity.

Let us explore the extraordinary world of Social Psychology!

(Nor Afifah Aziz)

Core Values of Social Psychology

The importance of core values is not only essential for scientist in doing their research but also important to all people to ensure validity and reliability of information we received. For example, I would like to emphasize a recent case occurred in Malaysia specifically in Lowyat which involved a group of man and seller of oppo smart phone. Within several days, the news turns out to be racial incident topic thus this brawl appear to be hot topic. The reason of this consequence happened because most of Malaysian citizen tend to believe in what they heard without searching the truth. In reality according to the official news berita harian, the incident happened after a man found that he got deceived and was given fake device by the seller of oppo phone. There is nothing to do with racial incident argument. Supposedly, we have to be skepticism and refuse to believe conclusions without strong verification.

Next, one of the core values in the study of social psychology is open-minded. In conducting a research one must ready to accept others’ evidence as valid although it may be clashed with one’s initial. In this world, there are many countries like Netherlands, Iceland and Denmark support gay marriage which allow freedom to marry with the same sex. When I watched a video, Ellen Lee DeGeneres revealed about her life experience which she married with her partner Portia de Rossi because she want someone that understand her the most. She believed that Rossi love and comforts her better than her male friends and boyfriends. Then, I try not to judge her opinion because she has her own reason for doing that. (Wan Rawanis)

Accuracy is also one of the core values that is applicable to use in our daily life. When we heard some rumours about an issue, we should gather and evaluate all the information that we got to analyse whether the information is true or not. As we view our society today, they like to spread rumours about an issue in social media like ‘twitter’ and ‘facebook’, and other people tends to believe that without making any research about that issue. Sometimes, I also be the one who believe about the news without find any evidence about the validity of the story. But after I studied about accuracy, I realized that I should make a research before believing the rumours that I heard. For the example, Malaysian was shocked with the news of debris of a plane was found near Madagascar. Malaysian thought that the debris was belong to the plane of MH370 as that plane had missing for a year. People tends to post about that on ‘twitter’ and ‘facebook’ by saying, the debris of MH370 had found, but the case is still in investigation. We as a people that heard about that should not believe 100% of the rumours as it still in investigation and we should not spread that to other people. We should wait until the investigation is finish before we jumped into any conclusion that made by ourselves.

The last core values that can be used in our daily life is objectivity. In objectivity, we should minimize bias while obtaining and evaluating the all the information that we get to complete our research. People nowadays like to be biased on every single thing that they heard and knew. If we want to know the validity of a news, we should avoid any prejudice or stereotyping in order to minimize the bias in ourselves. In my personal life, I as a man tends to disagree everything that I learnt and heard about feminist without making any further research about it. I believe that other man also have the same mentality as me by thinking that feminist is irrelevant to be learnt and ignore it without trying to understand the objective of learning about it. But now, I realized that by minimize prejudice and stereotyping about women, I can find the real objective why I learnt about it other than I got new information about women’s life. This objectivity is very crucial in conducting research and to be applied in our daily life. (Nurul Afiqah)

Fundamental Principles of Social Psychology

Bruce Lee once said that ‘ obey principles without being bound to them’. In Social Psychology, there are basically 5 fundamental principles that have been the core of this significant subject and have been used since people first established it. These principles act as a firm stand in Social Psychology that needs to be understood clearly in order to comprehend ourselves about the nature of Social Psychology. These principles can also be significantly related to situation in our daily lives and reflected the ways we socialise with people around us.

The first principle we would like to point out is social interaction. We bet everyone is also able to guess that social psychology is all about the society and environment as it has the term ‘social’ in it. Indeed, social psychology is truly about understanding what society is all about. Social interaction denotes the way we interact with people. From what we have understood, social interaction is a must in our daily lives; we communicate and interact with people on daily basis to convey information. As we can see in the real world, social interaction can happen in a lot ways and it is no longer limited to face-to-face interaction. We communicate on social medias; Facebook,Twitter, Instagram and Skype. We believe interaction is not only restricted to verbal messages but also nonverbal messages. The ways people post pictures on Instagram, Tweet on Twitter and sometimes post videos on youtube can also be the mediums where people use to communicate their feelings, express their ideas and impose their ideologies. On Instagram, people post pictures of the with captions that portay the information they want to convey to their followers. If they are disappointed or sad, they would write captions that tell people that they are having a bad day or they are having a severe fever or etc.

The next principle,I would say is a bit correlated with the first principle and it is cognitive processes. What can be extracted from cognitive processes is the method the information is received. The way we judge and extract the information that is being conveyed by the people we are interacting with actually includes in cognitive processes. We somehow notice that emotions, biasness, discrimination and prejudice somehow affect the way we receive the information. An example that we would like to point out is when a person strongly believes in white superiority will definitely tend to believe that Black’s movement to seek for racial equality is stupid and irrelevant. And for people who believe in LGBT movement that seeks for marriage equality tend to express emotions such as anger and hatred when they encounter with people who are homophobic (having a wide range of negative attitudes towards homosexuality) because they believe the belief they are holding to is completely right. Another obvious example can be seen when a guy is misogynistic ( having the belief that men are more superior than women), he will tend to perceive feminism as a stupid movement to seek for gender equality. That means he is somehow biased because of his gender.

The third major principle is environmental variables. This principle stresses out that the physical world does impact our behaviour such as the weather, smell and noise. We notice that our acts are significantly influenced by the condition of physical world. For example, we tend to be more hot-tempered when the weather is hot. This is due to the uncomfortability that has caused by the extreme weather makes us easier to get angry even over small matters . Getting angry over silly things such as ‘why is the drink so hot?!’ ‘why is the cat sleeping in front of the door?!’ and ‘ why are those people staring at us like we’ve just killed people?!” are the examples of small matters people get angry at when they are particularly not comfortable with the weather. And when we are at a place that has a very unpleasant smell probably because it is situated nearby a rubbish dump, we tend to feel dizzy and uneasy and that affects our behavior. We tend to behave negatively and we do not feel like talking to people and sometimes we feel a bit emotional due to the unfomfortability that is caused by the smelly smell.

The fourth major principle is cultural context which relates the norms and cultural transmission of the society we are living in to our behaviors. The way we were taught and instilled with the norms and cultures of the society we grew up in actually does have a huge impact on our behavior. All of us are basically Malays and we somehow taught that Chinese people actually took our rights as the natives of this country and that is why they are economically more successful than the Malays. As we grew older, we then realized that it is just a stereotype which generalizes that Chinese are oppressive towards Malays. Comparatively, we can observe that some Malays are too lazy to improve their quality or well-being of their lives because they are way too comfortable with their current lives and they disregard what is going to happen in the future (the value of Malaysian Ringgit declines or political instability happens), and perhaps that is why they are economically far behind Chinese in our country. Malay is also proven to be one of the races in Malaysia that has the highest number of drug addicts and crime cases recorded. Besides, in Malay, there is also a belief that claims ‘Women belong in the kitchen’. In our perspective, we believe that it is completely a misogynistic and sexist statement that downgrades women. It means that no matter how successful a woman is, she will definitely end up in the kitchen. Feminism somehow greatly opposes this notion because it somehow means women have a lower rank than men in the society. Women should be free to choose what they want to be in their lives and they can be more successful than men if they want to. ‘Women belong in the kitchen’ reflects that women have a limitation to achieve what they are looking forward for in life.

The last major principle would be the biological factors. Indeed, people might not see biological factors as the main influence of human behaviors but they actually do. Biological factors might also not affect human behaviors entirely but it does have a small influence in the way we behave or socialize in the environment or society we live in. Genetically, we inherited genetic components or materials from our parents and hence, it is not something peculiar if we possess attitudes that are more or less similar to them. From what I (Shazrul) concern, my parents are so approachable and they can talk to newly-met strangers for hours like they have known them for 10 years. And surprisingly I am also an approachable person and I perceive myself as person who easily gets comfortable with new people I meet. I do not feel awkward to disclose to people whom I have just met . Often we see that abusive parents who abuse their children regularly (physically or mentally) will definitely develop abusive behaviors in their children. The children will perhaps abuse their children as revenge towards their parents who once abused them when they were children. They tend to be more aggressive and hot-tempered t compared to children whose parents are gentle and caring.

(Mohamad Shazrul Hafiz Suhaime)

Research Method : Rethinking The Psychology of Tyranny; BBC Prison Study by Haslam and Reicher

The BBC Prison study uses several research methods which are field investigation and pilot study. Field investigation is actually an experiment that is conducted in a natural environment of the participants but the situations are artificially set up. Personally, I used this type of method several times towards a few of my girlfriends. Every day, my girlfriends and I always have dinner at 8 together but as usual, only a few can make it on time. Since we are a bunch of cold hearted girls, we’ll just leave the late comers and go grab our food first. There was this particular day when one of the late comers says that she will follows up later but then changes her mind. she asked us to bring back the food she ordered and I replied her whatsapp by saying that I do not want to order her food and that she should come and get it herself. My friends asked me to give that kind of fake respond because we want to see her reaction. We concluded that she is a sensitive girl based on her final respond. After a few minutes, we told her that we are joking and testing an experiment on her. Secondly, the pilot study is where the researcher selects a few people and tries to study them. I had used this method during high school when I gang up with my friends to brainwash a few of problematic students (based on reports from other student and amount of demerit they did). As a member of disciplinary board, we were so passionate to carry out our full responsibilities and corrected problematic students. During the brain wash sessions, we asked many questions and as a final result, all the misunderstanding and ambiguity were solve. Basically, even though all these research methods seem to exist only in the textbook, we actually do practices all the methods when conducting our daily life or while facing certain situation.

(Siti Hana Diyana)

Conclusion

Whether we realize it or not, social psychology is a part of our life because it shapes most of our behaviour. People are connected with each other as each of us is influenced by one another. This is because the concept of social identity and conformity lead us to follow what our society does. There are a few principles under social psychology that are being applied in our daily life such as biological factor, social interaction, cognitive process, environmental, and cultural context. Each of these aspects will shape us according to the law of social psychology itself and determine what kind of behaviour that we have. The Social psychology have provided a few guidelines for us to study or conduct research about a wide range of topic with a set of core values included skepticism, open minded, objective and accuracy. These set of core values of social psychology can be practised in our daily life when we want to interpret or analysis a certain behaviour that we see and follow the ethics of core value to accomplish our work. Besides observing our behaviour and other people, we also need to consider the method that we use to conduct an experiment or a case study. The method that we use will affect the results for our study and data that will be collected. It also gives us an idea that our action or behavior that we will take in our daily life will have their own consequences. Last but not least, social psychology helps us to understand more on how people’s behaviours are greatly influenced by other factors and by discovering this course more deeply we can recognise ourselves better.

"No very sharp line can be drawn between Social Psychology and Individual Psychology"- George H. Mead

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