PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cognitive Dissonance, Impact Bias, Mass Hysteria
21 Jun 2020
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A change in one"s behaviour due to the real or imagined influence of other people. Chameleon effect: unconsciously mimicking or adapting to the behaviours, mannerism, and actions of the people that one is interacting with. Mass hysteria suggestibility to problems that spreads throughout aa large group of people: common type is when a group of people believe they are suffering from a similar disease. In ways that are inconsistent with out conception of ourselves. Cognitive dissonance theory: discrepancies between attitudes and behaviour can. If the person cannot change their behaviour, the attitude will often be changed to. Of cognitive dissonance: produce psychological discomfort/ adverse arousal, cognitive dissonance come in line with the behaviour. Reducing dissonance by adding a cognition about another positive attribute. Impact bias: reactions to future negative events. The tendency to overestimate the intensity and duration of our emotional. When we think about the future, we overestimate how bad negative events will.
