PSYCH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Psych, Group Action, Risk Aversion
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Choices and actions: the self in control. Kim hyun hee: blew up korean airlines flight 858. Behavior was guided by values and culture. Focused on steps and details; not moral issues during the mission. What you do, and what it means. Human beings who live in culture act based on meaning; what you. Making choices do depends partly on what it means. Thinking enables people to make use of meaning. Whittle the range of choices to a few. Postponing, status quo bias, and omission bias. People desire freedom of choice and react negatively when freedom is reduced. Self-determination theory: people need some degree of autonomy and internal motivation. Panic button effect: reduction in stress due to belief that one has an. Goals: ideas of some desired future state. Planning and carrying out behaviors to reach goals. Most people have interlinked sets of goals. Duplex mind is relevant to goal hierarchies. Deliberate and automatic systems help us pursue goals.
