PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Deindividuation, Transactive Memory, Group Decision-Making

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

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This can happen immediately without our conscious awareness of it: attitudes affect the way we shape our goals and expectations, and how we interpret obstacles, attitudes influence behavior but do not always predict how someone will act. The ingroup is thought of favorably while the outgroup is usually disliked. (3) the illusory correlation results in white people overestimating crime rates among african. Blaming yourself for negative events can suppress the immune system. 2 (2) external (situational) attributions: an attributional bias is a cognitive shortcut for determining attribution that generally occurs outside our awareness. There are three common attributional biases: the fundamental attribution error, the self-serving bias, the belief in a just world. Antidrug programs that teach why someone should say no to drugs are more effective than programs that teach how to say no: roles help delineate responsibility within a group and to the group. 4: not everyone is equally affected by group pressure to conform.