PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Elizabeth Loftus, Attribution Bias, Social Cognition
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People generally rate others independently but rate themselves very dependently. Schema: set of cognitions about people and social experiences (mental representation) This american life (source monitoring/misinformation effect for another person) First impressions are critical and important (5 seconds = 30 ~ 60 minutes: women are way more accurate than men in judge personality traits. Attributional bias: halo effect - if a person has a positive set of traits, we infer uniformly positive traits. Assumed-similarity bias - we tend to assume people that they are similar to us when we. Rst meet them (we also tend to surround ourselves with similar people) Self-serving bias: we tend to attribute failure to external sources. Fundamental attributional error: over-attribute others" behavior to dispositional causes and minimize situational causes. When you are trying to prove a theory, disapprove it. ) The tendency to look for and examine con rming evidence when testing a hypothesis and neglect to look at or examine discon rming evidence.