PSYCH253 Chapter 2: The Self in a Social World (2)

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People are bad predictors of what will make us happy. People also err when predicting their behaviour (so if you are in love and want to know whether it will las, do not listen to your heart ask your close friends) One of the most common errors in behaviour prediction is underestimating how long it will take to complete a task planning fallacy. Planning fallacy: the tendency to underestimate how long it will take to complete a task. People have the greatest difficulty predicting the intensity and the duration of their future emotions. Impact bias: overestimating the enduring impact of emotion-causing events. We have dual attitudes differing implicit (automatic) and explicit (consciously controlled) attitudes toward the same object. Verbalized explicit attitudes may change with education and persuasion; implicit attitudes change slowly, with practice that forms new habits. Self-esteem: a perso(cid:374)"s o(cid:448)erall self-evaluation or sense of self-worth. High self-esteem becomes problematic if it crosses over into narcissism.

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