This section is the nature of science content, mainly about the nature of community psychology.
- Altruism and prosocial behavior
- attack
- bias
- Conflict and Peace Psychology
1. altruism and prosocial behavior
Pro-social behavior purpose is to help others. Altruism is not considered personal and individual security and interests when making such a pro-social behavior. The root of altruistic behavior of mankind as a whole has a huge advantage. Women believe that men have a clear altruistic tendencies would be a good father. There are some forces that can exhibit pro-social behavior, such as altruism, self-serving center, collectivism, rule doctrine, self-serving behavior is to make the center can be rewarded to comply with the rules of doctrine is religious and moral guidance, and collective altruism doctrine is clearly pro-social behavior.
In some social situations, although the spectator has motivated pro-social behavior, if the situation in the main perpetrator no apparent strengthen the responsibility of bystanders for help or to give the people, because it is easy to cause diffusion of responsibility bystander effect. This is often the case, for example, into a new workplace rookie encounter problems, people around do not know at this time if asked this question out loud how to solve. I think in most cases will be cold, because there is no clear lines of responsibility, resulting in a bystander effect.
2. Attack
According to general systems theory, the attack first, because there are individual living systems biological basis of aggression, without this foundation is basically out of the question the aggressive behavior. The remaining causes of aggressive behavior or situation is caused by external stimuli, such as have been violated, attacked, irritated and enraged, etc. This is the direct trigger aggressive behavior. Language and culture as the basis of human mental activity, affecting aggressive behavior, such as regulating a number of attacks, counter-attack conditions, law and so on.
3. Prejudice
Prejudice is an attitude of learned for a particular target groups, which include negative feelings and negative beliefs support this attitude, and avoid, control, conquer, destroy behavioral intentions target groups. The fact that there is a bias in the study: those who do not belong to them in the same group, it is easy to show prejudice. While people in the community is always that the evaluation group is better than the people in the non-group. Racism, sexism, etc., with the characteristic prejudice of the wind up.
Stereotype is a group of people giving the same characteristics of classification. People tend to get information from stereotypes to fill in missing data, and may consciously or unconsciously use stereotypes information to determine their own behavior. You think from the outset how a certain kind of person, because you get by observing its behavior, which is not necessarily accurate, please give yourself a chance to personally understand a certain person, or prejudices take you to Crossroads.
The main way to overcome prejudices and stereotypes is to increase opportunities for contact, increase common understanding, while providing opportunities for interdependence and situations.
4. Conflict and Peace Psychology
Attacks and prejudice are often seen in everyday life, and the two often intertwined. Obedience to authority is affected by the normative influences and information sources, the crowd in the herd effect the formation of spontaneous obedience to authority context, if the authority to make all kinds of unreasonable things or instruction, because the herd is believed to lead to a reasonable and executed, such as war, the cult movement and so on.