PSYC 241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Rosy Retrospection, Tooth Brushing, Belief Perseverance
5 Dec 2016
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We construct social perceptions and beliefs by: perceiving and recalling events through assumptions. Judging events using intuition, which is influenced by implicit rules that guide our snap judgments as well as our mood: explaining events by attributing them to the person or the situation, expecting events, which helps bring them about. One thought can influence another thought/action without us being aware. Much of our social information process is automatic. Effects surface when the stimuli are presented subliminally. Embodied cognition: physical sensations prime social judgments and cognitive preferences. When social information is open to multiple interpretations, pre-conceptions affect our reception of this information. We think mediators are biased against us: e. g. Pro-israeli and pro-arab students both found that news segments on the beirut massacre were biased against them. Contradictory evidence can be assimilated to strengthen our prejudgments: e. g. Showing mixed evidence about the death penalty made both opponents and proponents of the death penalty more firm in their beliefs.
