Chapter One Social Psychology David Myers 11e
Chapter One Social Psychology David Myers 11e
Chapter One Social Psychology David Myers 11e
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Protects people from depression
event and receiving misleading information about it
Reconstructing our past attitudes
Maladaptive Reconstructing our past behavior
•Group-serving bias Judging Our Social World
Self-Presentation
Intuitive Judgments
Wanting to present a desired image both to an external audience (other people) and to an internal Powers of intuition
audience (ourselves) Controlled processing
Self-Handicapping
Reflective, deliberate, and conscious
Protecting one’s self-image with behaviors that create a handy excuse for later
Automatic processing
failure
Impulsive, effortless, and without our awareness
Self-Monitoring
Tendency to act like social chameleons Schemas
Emotional reactions
END OF CHAPTER 2 Judging Our Social World
____________________________________________________________________________ The Limits of Intuition
Hindsight Bias
Chapter Three Perceptual Misinterpretations
Social Psychology Illusory Intuition
David Myers Judging Our Social World
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Social Beliefs and Judgments Overconfidence Phenomenon
Perceiving Our Social Worlds Tendency to be more confident than correct – to overestimate the accuracy of one’s beliefs
Incompetence feeds overconfidence
Priming Planning fallacy
Activating particular associations in memory Stockbroker overconfidence
Example: Watching a scary movie at home may prime us to interpret furnace noises Political overconfidence
as a possible intruder Judging Our Social World
Perceiving and interpreting events
Kulechov effect- cues about setting and context can color our perceptions of Confirmation Bias
others. Tendency to search for information that confirms one’s preconceptions
Spontaneous trait transference Helps explain why our self-images are so stable
Perceiving Our Social Worlds Self-verification
– Attitudes toward the church were only modestly linked with worship attendance on any given
• Used by some car dealers
Evil and Moral Acts
Sunday
– Wartime
–Self-described racial attitudes provided little clue to behaviors in actual situations Actions and attitudes feed on each other
When evil behavior occurs we tend to justify it as right
How Well Do Our Attitudes Predict Our Behavior?
When Attitudes Predict Behavior – Peacetime
– When social influences on what we say are minimal Moral action, especially when chosen rather than coerced, affects moral thinking
Interracial Behavior and Racial Attitudes
• Implicit Racial behaviors help shape our social consciousness
– Implicit association test (IAT) • By doing, not saying racial attitudes were changed
END OF CHAPTER 4