In the “Personality and Social Psychology” chapter, we looked at different studi

In the “Personality and Social Psychology” chapter, we looked at different studies of social behaviors (i.e. obedience, conformity, helping, and bystander behavior) that show that people
may behave differently when placed in a situation than they report they would behave when merely asked what they’d do. Using information from the textbook (George, Kelley, and Piferi: Introduction to Psychology from a Christian Worldview) to support your responses,
answer the following:
– What do studies in social psychology show us about the difference between what we
think and say we would do in situations versus our actual behaviors when placed in
them?
– How does this matter to research in social psychology and the use of self-report measures
in many studies?
– How could this discrepancy between what we think we’d do and what we actually do be
looked at biblically? That is, how would God explain why we don’t always do what we think we’d do?