PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Symbolic Interactionism, Tums, Cognitive Load
11 Dec 2015
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*daffodil days: most people think they will buy it and peers won"t; turns out they predict they will buy more than peers but actually buy less than their prediction of peers. *results: better than average effect not due to pessimistic view of others but due to overly confident about self. *issue: prediction may contaminate behavior + error due to self not social attribution -> second study. Given 5$ with a list of 3 charities to donate to (salvation army, red cross, spca) Predict how much self and peers would donate (self = 3$ and peer = 2. 2$) But, if given case based info about one single peer, the prediction is higher (it is not confidence about self how individuated case based info can distort our prediction) People"s own skills serve as judgmental anchor and fail to consider others" skills. *above average effect: absolute skills high or requirement for success is low. *domain difficulty is counter related to prediction of self.
