PS285 Lecture 3: Social Psychology Lecture 3.docx
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Problems with common sense criticism: common wisdom is unclear, ambiguous a. some contradicting, if rely on common sense how do you establish which is more true, common sense is inaccurate or incomplete, overestimate personality of behaviour and underestimate power of, attribution fundamental error (cid:224) how we explain the causes of other situation peoples behaviour, we are bias and presume beautiful people are smart, false consensus (cid:224) people share our opinions than actually. Research finding birds flock together as one or opposites attract hindsight bias (cid:224) i knew it all along, can seem sensible & unsurprising to make people feel more confident after, rather than prior experiment: knowing what answer is what was probably that you could have generated it yourself rather than having to generate it yourself your enemy because cant hurt you during exam you get resukts and as you react it seems clear.
