SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. PART 5. ATTRACTION AND EMOTIONS

Hello, everyone!

This week I'm going to share my impression on The Module 5 of Social Psychology.

The Module covers the problem of Our Feelings and Emotions.

It consists of following chapters:

1.     The definition of Emotions; their functions and types (signaling, communicative);

2.     The way attribution influences our Emotions;

3.     The influence of emotions to one’s behavior;

4.     The role of attraction in social relationship.

There is a lot I learned from this module, which helped me to make a conclusion.

Since we are always surrounded by society, the communication and our attribution to people plays a significant role in establishing all kinds of relationship. Not only our attitude towards them is important, but also the way we explain other people’s behavior. We judge a person on the actions they do, trying to find different explanations of their behavior. This kind of evaluation leads us to feeling different emotions towards them. Moreover, the state of a person’s feeling may also influence our perception of them, thus, we tend to feel different emotions to people considering the reasons them made them feel this or that way.

The lecturer also talked about attraction. The attraction is mostly based on our stereotypes. We see a person and, subconsciously, come up with the judgment we make about his appearance, social status, values, attitudes and personal traits of character. This sometimes influences our ability to feel empathy or sympathy towards them. And, eventually, we come to understand that we tend to be attracted to people who are similar with us in certain ways.

I absolutely loved this module. I got answers to many of my questions. Now I quite understand the mechanism of getting attracted to people around me.  

Having studied the Module, I passed the test. The results are following: