PSY 161 Lecture 13: Biases, and Attitudes

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 161
• Professor: Professor Elliot

Document Summary

We need it because it is helpful. Study errors teach us how people tend to process information. People are not usually aware of their bias. "no matter the issue, people always think they"re not biased - even when you can document statistically that there"s a huge bias. " We"re bad at predicting how we"re going to feel down the road in the future. Tendency to mispredict the intensity and duration of emotional reactions to future events. How we"re going to feel about future events. Focalism - overestimate how much we will think about an event in the future. How we"re not going to actually feel this bad in the future despite how bad we feel in the moment. Immune neglect: tendency to ignore automatic psychological processes that help us "cope" with emotional events. (cid:449)e dist(cid:396)a(cid:272)t ou(cid:396)sel(cid:448)es, (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t o(cid:448)e(cid:396)e(cid:373)phasize a(cid:374)d o(cid:448)e(cid:396)ge(cid:374)e(cid:396)alize th(cid:396)oughout the day. Information that is more easily retrieved is more likely to be used.