PSYCH 414 Lecture Notes - Construals, Social Cognition, Terror Management Theory

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People try to view themselves as good, competent, moral. Are afraid? (he changed the slide too fast again) Asked to wear white lab coat or regular clothes. Steele replaced brehm"s findings for the business majors with and without coats (and science majors without coats) Something odd happened with the science majors with coats. Wearing a white lab coat was self-affirming for the science majors. Therefore, though they may have experience dissonance when thinking about the records they chose, the lab coat reaffirmed their status as scientist and thus the did not show evidence of the post decisional dissonance. Sexually active students made a speech for high school students in favor of practicing safe sex. Think about times you didn"t practice safe sex. Not asked to think about past behavior. Some participants given opportunity to reduce dissonance indirectly by donating money to help the homeless or by buying condoms or by keeping the money. No dissonance group: 80% kept the money.

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