PSYCH 178 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Social Rejection, Pluralistic Ignorance, Eardrum
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Developing laws: pick something that has generality and can be applied across many situations, you usually only want to come up with theories only when something negative happens. Maybe it is me: social norms part of covariation, base rates, hedonic biases we do not actually know other people so we make up things that make us feel better, pluralistic ignorance, cause of exam failure: Lack of ability, low effort, anxiety , illness, not attractive, poor personality, poor hygiene, different interests. Bus was late, bad professor, noisy roommates, bus was late, poor, no time/busy. Lack of ability, poor professor, anxiety, illness, noisy roommates, bus was late, need money, Lack of effort, lack of ability, anxiety, illness, noisy roommates, bus was late, need money, Experiment: pride, raising sales at the store someone worked at. There has to be a success and you contributed to the success. For you to have a decrease in pride, you have to have caused that failure.
