Social Beliefs and Judgments Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Social Psychology by David G. Myers 8 th Edition Social Beliefs and Judgments

Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. How We Explain Other’s Behavior Attribution Theory –Dispositional vs. situational attributions –Inferring traits –Commonsense attributions –Information integration © Michael Newman/PhotoEdit

Social Beliefs and Judgments Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. The Fundamental Attribution Error

Social Beliefs and Judgments Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. The Fundamental Attribution Error

Social Beliefs and Judgments Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. The Fundamental Attribution Error Why do we make this error? –Perspective and situational awareness –Cultural differences How fundamental is this error? Why we study attribution errors © Grant LeDuc/Monkmyer

Social Beliefs and Judgments Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Attribution Theories & The FAE

Social Beliefs and Judgments Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Constructing Our Social Worlds Perceiving and interpreting events Belief perseverance Constructing memories –Reconstructing past attitudes –Reconstructing past behavior –Reconstructing our experiences © Conklin/Monkmyer

Social Beliefs and Judgments Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Judging Others Thinking without awareness Judgmental overconfidence Heuristics –Representative heuristic –The availability heuristic –Counterfactual thinking

Social Beliefs and Judgments Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Judging Others Illusory thinking –Illusory correlation –Illusion of control Mood and judgment © Frank Pedrick/ The Image Works

Social Beliefs and Judgments Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Self-Fulfilling Beliefs Teacher expectations and student performance Getting from others what we expect

Social Beliefs and Judgments Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Supplemental Slides

Social Beliefs and Judgments Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Attribution Theories

Social Beliefs and Judgments Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Attribution Theories

Social Beliefs and Judgments Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Attribution Theories

Social Beliefs and Judgments Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Self-Fulfilling Beliefs

Social Beliefs and Judgments Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Expectations & Attributions