Perceiving Our Social World

-       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

Explaining Others

-       attribution theory

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

Are Beliefs Self-Fulfilling?

- on own in text, pages109-114