PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Psy, Psych, Trait Theory
8 Sep 2020
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Acting in ways that cause objective reality to confirm your prior expectation. Ex: when male participants believe they are interacting with an attractive (or unattractive) partner over the phone, blind coders rather the beautiful partners to be more friendly. Theories of how people explain others" (and their own) behavior. Why we do the things we do. Participants either read a pro-castro or anti-castro essay: participants were told the essay writer freely chose the topic, participants were told the essay writer was assigned the topic. Dependent variable: the writer"s attitude toward castro. Choice = you chose something you believe in. Don"t have a choice = have to make a situational attribution. People still make an attribution even when they knew the writer had no choice. Tendency for people (in western cultures) to underestimate situational influences and overestimate dispositional influences on others" behavior. Actor-observer difference in perceptual salience: the information that"s available to you in the world.
