PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Confirmation Bias, Pluralistic Ignorance, Social Cognition

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Interrogators determine if guilty or innocent, ask more vigorous questions: desire to foster certain beliefs/behaviors leads people to accentuate or suppress some elements from their story. Sometimes innocent, others on purpose: desire to entertain (one of most pervasive), distortion through mass media (over report, emphasize placed on negative and crimes) Bad-news bias leads people to believe they"re more at risk of victimization than really are correlation between time spent watching news perceived vulnerability. Correlation reduced in non-violent area, strong in high-crime ones. How information is presented: powerful impact of how information is presented revealed through marketing and advertising. Company frames issue as one of quality, or savings, or . Highlight information in political debates (i. e. power of certain words) Used by politicians in polls (i. e. tax relief) to influence public opinion: positive & negative framing: emphasize good or bad influences judgements. Influence can apply to other dimensions (i. e. near or far in space)

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