Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Confirmation Bias, Social Identity Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Tony Francolini

Document Summary

Perception: process by which people select, organize, interpret, and respond to information from the world around them. Attribution: regard something as being caused by something else. Process by which we assign causes or motives to explain people"s behaviour. We look at the event and look for consistency based on this we determine if external (no) or internal (yes) We also look if the person acts differently in different situations if external (yes) or internal (no) Attribution biases: how we use dispositional and situation attributes to make casual judgments. Correspondence bias: people take into account the situation and context only when it explains their own issue or reasoning. Self-serving bias: people take into account the dispositional only when explaining their own successes. Items are not unique but exemplars of categories. Theory that explains how people perceive, recall, redue, and evaluate items (bruener"s model) Stereotype lazy research (based on what you know) Prejudice willing to use wrong data or data in malice.