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Social Psychology / 社会心理学

145.嫉妒与鄙视:我该如何躲避这双向的毒箭? adds the envy-and-contempt branch through Susan Fiske / 苏珊·菲斯克’s 《嫉妒与鄙视》. The episode uses Social Comparison Pressure / 社会比较压力, status hierarchy, stereotype, group identity, and empathy to explain how ordinary comparison can become envy or contempt before becoming public hostility or self-attack.

132.争论与说服:我们为什么吵架,怎么才算赢? extends social psychology from self-suspicion into argument and persuasion. The episode uses perception experiments, cognitive dissonance, conspiracy belief, vaccine discourse, group polarization, and deep canvassing to show how social context changes what people can notice, defend, and revise.

Social psychology / 社会心理学 is the source’s name for studying how people perceive, judge, and act inside social situations. In 123.人性实验:当心你自己!, 蜜獾吃书 contrasts this experimental tradition with folk maxims, literary cleverness, and after-the-fact certainty about “human nature.”

The episode treats social psychology as a discipline of self-suspicion. Its recurring lesson is not that people are hopelessly irrational, but that Social Reality Construction / 社会现实建构, identity, group pressure, memory, labels, anonymity, distraction, and emotion can shape judgment before the person notices.

Key Claims

  • Human behavior cannot be explained only by stable character; situations and groups can change what people notice and do.
  • Status comparison can make emotion feel like private defect even when the mechanism is social, relational, and partly structural.
  • Experimental design can reveal failures that ordinary introspection misses.
  • Social psychology is useful only when it turns back on the observer: the question is not only why others are biased, but when one’s own certainty is being manufactured.
  • The episode uses social psychology to connect public media, politics, scams, online violence, and daily self-deception.

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