PSYCH 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pluralistic Ignorance, Pareidolia, List Of Muppets
9 Apr 2018
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The hidden data problem - when forming our beliefs, we base them on information gathered from the world. However the world hides some information and reveals or distorts others, so hard to know our beliefs are well founded. Airline safety magazine articles -- knowing where exits are and rehearsing how to get to there increases chances of moving from casualty to survival. However, unable to interview nonsurvivors so no way to know what they were thinking. Pluralistic ignorance: most of our information about other people come from other people. People are not entirely honest, lie to themselves, etc. People tend to take social cues from society, and act accordingly; if everyone is doing this without believing in it, then everyone is just doing this without actually believing it due to the chain reaction. Princeton students and assumptions about attitudes towards alcohol.
