PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Reference Group, Extraversion And Introversion, Barnum Effect
24 Aug 2018
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Observation ppl tend to believe in descriptions of personality that supposedly are descriptive of them, but could in fact describe almost anyone. Helps us understand why many ppl believe in: astrology, horoscopes, fortunetelling, palm reading, tarot card reading. Ppl are likely to accept descriptions of personality if they think they"ve been written for them: ppl seem to believe in traits more than they should. Judgments presumably aren"t subject to types of defensiveness that: level of relevant info that"s available to rater is an issue. thoughts, feelings, & motives of person they"re rating. Problem is magnified when informant doesn"t know person. Also doesn"t work if informant only sees him/her in a limited. Even under best of circumstances, informants lack full access to particularly well. range of situations: not immune to reference group effect. Parents tend to exaggerate true magnitude of differences between their children.
