1. Social Psychology Talbot
Chapter Three
Social Beliefs and Judgments

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Explaining others
Attribution Theory
Dispositional vs. situational attributions
Inferring traits
Commonsense attributions
Information integration
The fundamental attribution error (FAE)
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4. Explaining others (cont.)
Explaining the FAE
Perspective and situational awareness
Culture differences
How fundamental is the FAE?
Why we study attribution errors
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5. Constructing interpretations and memories
Perceiving and interpreting events
Belief perseverance
Constructing memories
Reconstructing past attitudes
Reconstructing past behavior
Reconstructing our experiences
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Judging others
Intuition
Judgmental overconfidence
Heuristics
Representative heuristic
Ignoring base-rate information
The availability heuristic
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Judging others (cont.)
Illusory thinking
Illusory correlation
Illusion of control
Mood and judgment
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8. Self-fulfilling beliefs
Teacher expectations and student performance
Getting from others what we expect (even if it is wrong)
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