PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Nachos, Positive Illusions, Snickers

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

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The actor"s subjective understanding or definition of his or her situations. Humans actively construe and even construct the phenomena they encounter in their social experience. The impact of an objective stimulus critically depends on the meaning we attach to it. Contributed to variability o human behavior (mischel"s caps theory) Do not fully appreciate the subjectivity of our own perceptions. We do not appreciate the extent to which motivated processes can. Do not allow for other"s construal when interpreting other"s behavior (fae) Or, differences in construal are because others" are biased (whereas i proceed for available evidence to reasonable interpretations) I struggle with ambiguities, others (especially other groups) see world as black and white. We are both oblivious to the fact that others se the world differently from the way we see it, and we exaggerate subjectivity of other"s experience (construal) Study was inspired by a football game played by the dartmouth indians and the.