-
priming
o
activating
associations
o
influence
thought, behaviors
o
everyday life
- belief perseverance
o
belief continued, even when discredited
o
cause
§ create rationales
o
remedy
§ explain the opposite
- constructing memories
o
reconstruct past using the present
§ misinformation effect
o
reconstructing past attitudes
§ rosy retrospection
Judging Our Social World
- intuitive judgments
o
unconscious
o
power of
§ controlled processing
· explicit
§ automatic
· implicit
o
blindsight
o
facial recognition
o
limits
§ illusory thinking
- overconfidence
o
overconfidence phenomenon
§ more confident than correct
§ “planning fallacy”
§ cause
· “almost right”
· confirmation bias
§ remedies
· prompt feedback
· consider disconfirming info
- illusory thinking
o
illusory correlations
§ relationship where none
exists
o
illusion of control
§ influence chance events
· gambling
· regression towards the
average
o
extremes return to average
o
explain behavior
§ dispositional attributions
§ situational attributions
- misattributions
o
misreading behavior
- fundamental attribution
error (FAE)
o
underestimate situation, overestimate disposition
o
FAE in everyday life
- why the attribution errors?
o
actor-observer difference
o
camera perspective bias
o
perspective
§ changes with time
§ seeing on TV vs. being in
audience
· “Dean scream”
§ cultural differences
· individualism vs. collectivism
- on
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