PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Confirmation Bias, Pluralistic Ignorance, Illusory Correlation
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Chapter 4 - social cognition: thinking about people and situations (pgs. They provide particularly helpful cues about how people think about other individuals and make inferences about them. They give psychologists hints about the strategies or rules people follow to make judgments - both those that are successful and disastrous. Whether rate or common, mistakes often reveal a lot about how a system works by showing its limitations. Thus, researchers in social cognition have often explored the limitations of everyday judgment. Social cognition depends first of all on information. Understanding other people depends on accurate information assessments: sometimes people have little or no information on which to base their, sometimes the available information is misleading, sometimes the way that they acquire information overly affects their thinking. Each of these circumstances presents special challenges to achieving an accurate understanding of others. Minimal information: inferring personality from physical appearance in an empirical study demonstrating snap judgments , janine willis and alex.
