PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 56: Fundamental Attribution Error, Illusory Correlation, Victim Blaming
13 May 2017
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= forming impressions of others (appearance, schemas, stereotypes) Illusory correlation = estimate that you have encountered more confirmations of association between social traits than you actually have. Ingroup = group that one belongs to/identifies with. Outgroup = group that one doesn"t belong to/identify with. Attributions = inference that people draw about the cause of events, others" behaviour and their own behaviour. Fundamental attribution error = observers" bias in favour of internal attributions in explaining others" behaviour. Defensive attribution = tendency to blame victims for their misfortune so one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way. Self-serving bias = tendency to attribute one"s success to personal factors and failures to situational factors. Matching hypothesis = men and women of equal physical attractiveness are likely to select each other as partners. Passionate love = complete absorption in another, tender sexual feelings and agony/ecstasy of intense emotion. Companionate love = warm, trusting, tolerant affection, deeply intertwined.
