SOCIAL
PSYCHOLOGY
BEING IN A WORLD
OF OTHERS218 You cannot understand
a system until you try
to change it
Kurt Lewin224 How strong is the
urge toward social
conformity?
Solomon Asch228 Life is a dramatically
enacted thing
Erving Goffman230 The more you see it,
the more you like it
Robert Zajonc236 Who likes competent
women?
Janet Taylor Spence237 Flashbulb memories
are fired by events
of high emotionality
Roger Brown238 The goal is not to advance
knowledge, but to be
in the know Serge Moscovici240 We are, by nature, social
beings William Glasser242 We believe people get
what they deserve
Melvin Lerner244 People who do crazy
things are not
necessarily crazy
Elliot Aronson246 People do what they
are told to do
Stanley Milgram254 What happens when
you put good people
in an evil place?
Philip Zimbardo256 Trauma must be
understood in terms
of the relationship
between the individual
and society
Ignacio Martín-Baró193 We are constantly on
the lookout for causal
connections
Daniel Kahneman
194 Events and emotion are
stored in memory together
Gordon H. Bower
196 Emotions are a runaway
train Paul Ekman
198 Ecstasy is a step into
an alternative reality
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
200 Happy people are
extremely social
Martin Seligman
202 What we believe with
all our hearts is not
necessarily the truth
Elizabeth Loftus
208 The seven sins of memory
Daniel Schacter
210 One is not one’s thoughts
Jon Kabat-Zinn
211 The fear is that biology
will debunk all that we
hold sacred
Steven Pinker
212 Compulsive behavior
rituals are attempts to
control intrusive thoughts
Paul Salkovskis