PSYCH-225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Social Facilitation, Telecommunications Network, Ibm Officevision
30 Sep 2020
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Some say no: but ppl with interdependent selves less motivated to enhance personal self-image (sticking out potentially damaging to harmony with others according to collectivist idealism). enhance for traits valued in culture (ex: independence vs loyalty/cooperative) However, all self enhance on subtle measures of self-esteem. Desire to avoid mistakes and desire to have control over outcomes goal of accurate understanding. Gather more info than usual and value info that goes beyond initial biases to be more accurate. Discounting principle: judgmental rule that states that as number of possible causes for event increases, our confidence that any particular cause is true one should decrease wealth, her tolerance (not nec love) +happy: use shortcuts bc confidnt about ways of thinking. Need for cognition: ppl who like thinking, solving life"s puzzle, and think about strengths and weaknesses of argument seek accurate understanding of world and less likely to use simplifying heuristics (expend more effort assessing circumstances)
