PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Minimal Group Paradigm, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Binge Drinking
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If you want to have a grasp of what people are like, the starting point is yourself. The general assumption (usually left implicit and unexamined) that we see reality accurately, correctly, that we are normative, we make sense. We therefore can use our understanding of ourselves as a basis from which to judge others. People who are similar to us are obviously also nice, decent people like we are. But people who are different from us, they are weird, deviant, deficient in some way. And we are pretty good, better than average, in fact. Ex. people prefer their own belonging, the letters of their name, and believe that for most things, they are better than average". 90% of adults claim that they are better-than-average drivers, even if they have been hospitalized for injuries caused by car accidents. Out of 800 000 people, not a single one rated themselves as below average in.
