PSY10000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Representativeness Heuristic, Fundamental Attribution Error, Psy
7 Nov 2017
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Lecture #26: motive 1: motivated tactitians, self-serving biases: Outcomes: fundamental attribution error: we tend to attribute other people"s actions to who they are. Observer judgement: actor-observer divergence: how we judge our own behavior. Attention is focused on my situation (nature of the environment) Over-estimate the proportion of people who share my values and beliefs. We are interested in having similar interests, values, and beliefs with other people: false uniqueness. Over-estimating the proportion of people who don"t share our traits. Subjective well-being: cognitive evaluations and affections of ourselves. The amount of pretense can change a reality. Is this behavior present only in this situation or in many others: consensus: do other people do this action. Internal attribution: high consistency, low distinctiveness, low consensus. External attribution: high consistency, high distinctiveness, high consensus. When the outcome it important, accuracy becomes more important. Attitudes: attitudes are our evaluation of any aspect of our social world, attitudes have 3 components:
