Social Psychology Talbot Chapter Three Social Beliefs and Judgments

Copyright © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Explaining others Attribution Theory Dispositional vs. situational attributions Inferring traits Commonsense attributions Information integration The fundamental attribution error (FAE) Copyright © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 2 of 16

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Explaining others (cont.) Explaining the FAE Perspective and situational awareness Culture differences How fundamental is the FAE? Why we study attribution errors Copyright © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 3 of 16

Constructing interpretations and memories Perceiving and interpreting events Belief perseverance Constructing memories Reconstructing past attitudes Reconstructing past behavior Reconstructing our experiences Copyright © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 4 of 16

Copyright © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Judging others Intuition Judgmental overconfidence Heuristics Representative heuristic Ignoring base-rate information The availability heuristic Copyright © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 5 of 16

Copyright © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Judging others (cont.) Illusory thinking Illusory correlation Illusion of control Mood and judgment Copyright © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 6 of 16

Self-fulfilling beliefs Teacher expectations and student performance Getting from others what we expect (even if it is wrong) Copyright © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 7 of 16

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