PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: John Lydon

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: John Lydon

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Construal: the participant"s subjective experience of his/her situation. These experiences are a combination of past experiences, genetics and more. Choose which picture looks most like barack obama. People who voted obama were more likely to choose a lightened picture; similarly, those who voted mccain were most likely to choose the darkened image. You get the same effect when an unknown african. American candidate who shares vs does not share your ideology. A group of yankees fans and non-yankees fans were asked what the distance was to their opposing team"s stadium (boston). Yankee fans described the enemies to be closer. In conclusion, when you"re in a threat condition, your construal of distance is much smaller. Construal affects objective perceptions like distance, face recognition, etc.