PSY 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5.5: Peace Corps, Blood Sugar, Random Assignment

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2110
• Professor: Gary Capstick

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Seeing the self positively: attributes exist along a continuum, the average person is reasonably accurate in judging where along a continuum they fall, however, the inaccuracy tends to lean in one particular direction. The average person has a tendency to see themselves as better than they actually are: we call this the self-serving bias, 4 manifestations, being better than average, attributions, unrealistic optimism, false consensus and uniqueness. Above average effect: the above average effect. The tendency for people to rate themselves as above the average on most positive social attributes. A self-serving bias when comparing ourselves to other people. The tendency to attribute positive outcomes to yourself and negative outcomes to other factors: successes. People tend to attribute success to ability and effort: failures. Attribute to things like bad luck or unfair or impossible aspects of the situation/task. Unrealistic optimism: the biased belief that we will be successful in future endeavors. Fake consensus and uniqueness: false consensus effect.