PSYCH 3CD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Illusory Correlation, Credit Risk, Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
16 Dec 2013
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If we"re going to use them, there should be some reason to use them. If they"re not useful, we probably shouldn"t use them. Stereotypes should help us through a cognitively complex world. Bodies of research about whether or not they are useful enough to be maintained. Why would we maintain something that points us in the wrong direction? (unless it"s harder to get rid of than to keep) Accuracy refers to whether they actually help us to predict things in the world around us. If you find that a negative stereotype is false, you look like a hero. If you find that a negative stereotype is true, you look like a jerk. Depending on what you find, people are either going to like you or hate you. This is why people don"t like to do this kind of research. Often talk about a grain of truth in a stereotype.
