PSYCH 414 Lecture Notes - Social Desirability Bias, Conscientiousness, Extraversion And Introversion
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We have an endless fascination with other people. Assumption is that people are trying to be accurate in understanding other people. 6 major emotions: anger, fear, disgust, surprise, happy, sad. Fill in the blanks by grouping personality traits together. Eg: people that look emo / gothic, are you rednecks, etc. Implicit something that is activated automatically. We want to know whats inside other people (feelings, motives, dispositions) Internal: its about you and your choices. External: its about something that may be outside of your control. Look at the characteristics of a particular behavior, at a particular time, and compare it with what you know about previous examples. You can make attributions to the actor. Maybe its a mean dog and it attacks people. Eg: joe only kicks fido and not other dogs high distinctiveness. External attribution often made to the particular circumstances. One would think that logically there must be some necessary precursors before internal dispositional inferences can be made.
