PSYC 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reactive Devaluation
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Subjective construal: meaning of words changes when you change the person that says it. People differ in the object of judgment source changes. Jefferson, but if you were told they rated them last, you thought of them as a local slimy ward boss . Na ve realism illusion of objectivity : i see stimuli and events as they are in objective reality. My attitudes and beliefs follow from a relatively unbiased apprehension of the evidence at hand (you think this: others will share my views provided they"ve processed reality in a reasonable straightforward fashion (you think this, evidence: False consensus people who make a certain choice estimate that choice to be more common than do people who make the opposite choice (think most people share our view of reality) Need to explain (attribute) their views to something task changes from one of prediction to one of attribution: consequences for social debate (when you don"t agree with someone):
