PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Logical Reasoning, The Peripheral, Truism
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These are activated by our goals and trigger actions to pursue that goal (even unconsciously). They show less interest in the tolerance of uncertainty and go gravitate towards attitudes and beliefs that envision a structured and orderly world. Reference groups: groups where opinion matter to a person and that affect the person"s opinions and beliefs. Our commitment to the idea that people in the groups we join share our attitudes can lead to certain forms of bias. People tend to overestimate the similarity between their own attitudes and the attitudes of their leaders. Theodore newcomb"s study: students came from right-winged families but attended a left-winged college. They make us more efficient, but sometimes more biased. We recall information that is more consistent with our pre-existing attitudes. Experiment: students watched a debate between two presidential candidates. It starts through the central route (this is known as the systematic route in chaiken"s theory)
