Why Your Friends Know You Better Than You Know Yourself: The Wild Truths of Social Psychology
Description
In this episode of The Psychology Undergrad, we unpack a surprising truth: your friends often understand you better than you understand yourself. Using this idea as our entry point, we explore the core of Social Psychology — the forces shaping how we think, feel, and act.
We dive into introspection errors, confabulation, heuristics, attitude formation, cognitive dissonance, persuasion, attribution mistakes, stereotypes, prejudice, conformity, obedience, aggression, altruism, and group influence. Through real-world examples, moral themes, and everyday dilemmas, the episode shows how little we see of our own minds—and how much others reveal about us.
Keywords: social psychology, introspection illusion, self-knowledge, persuasion, attribution, conformity, prejudice, aggression, altruism, group influence, psychology podcast.
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