PS270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Rosy Retrospection, Condom, Dispositional Attribution
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It is when our bodily sensations influence our cognitive opinion and social reasoning. Our listeners can link our traits to our tendency that we voice about other people (if we speak good/bad about others). It is the persistence of our initial belief that is extremely hard to change. A process in which we include wrong information into our reconstruction of the memory of the past experience due to receiving misleading information about it. It can affect withdrawal of our past attitudes as well as behaviours. It is conscious explicit thinking that is intentional and reflective. It is an overestimation of the accuracy of one"s beliefs. A tendency of people not to search for information that could contradict their beliefs. What can aid overconfidence: provoking instant feedback, breaking down tasks to smaller subtasks. For example, people who go to the fast food places tend to be in rush (fast).
