PSY220H1 Lecture : Trope, Uleman, etc.
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Current situation disambiguates behavior - e. g. crying at a funeral. The situati on often creates discounting - tears at a funeral are not seen as indicative of a sad person, as tears at a party. But it can also lead to augmentation - crying at a party means person is sad. Prior behaviours - you know that the person always cries. People can spontaneosuly make trait attributions without being aware of doing so. Participants read about behaviours which implied certain traits. Later - subject s given cued recll task: semantic cue - related to something that happened in the sentense but nothing to do with traits. Books - >librarian: trait cue - e. g. helpful, no cue. Both sem and trait cues imporoved recall equally. This suggests that when people read a sentence of a person performing an act the y go beyond the info given and make a dispositional attribution.
