PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Positive Illusions, Nachos, Mental Representation

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 333
• Professor: Jennifer Bartz

Document Summary

I struggle with ambiguities, others see world as black and white: we are both i) oblivious to and ii) exaggerate construal differences. They saw a game (history & cantril): princeton-dartmouth football game (1951, rough game, with many penalties and some serious injuries, one week later, history and cantril had dartmouth and princeton students fill out a questionnaire . In brief, the data here indicate that there is no such thing" as a. Game" existing out there" in its own right which people merely ob- serve. " the game exists" for a person and is experienced by him only insofar as certain happenings have significances in terms of his purpose. I see the world as it is : objective reality, why would you see it differently, uninformed, biased, disposition/traits. Different construals: because the other person is, lazy, unintelligent, driven by ideology, values, temperament.