PSYC 337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Mental Disorder
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Book: introduction to abnormal psychology 2015, course pack. Rated fa(cid:272)es for (cid:862) trustworthy(cid:863) et(cid:272): 371 inmates on death row, 371 murders life sentences. Perceiving things - depends on how you think about things - in turn affected by how you perceive things. State of florida - takes facial pictures of anyone who gets arrested. Group of american workers rated these pictures for number of diff variables. Just looking at faces not knowing which belonged to which group. Those who were in life sentences were rated higher for trustworthiness. Extenuating evidence for those on death row claiming to be innocent. Started by the two guys who testified at oj simpson"s trial. Now trying to help those who are innocent. Our judgements based on what people look like. Degree of differences between groups was significant but not that great. We are a funny species on how we make judgements. Have opportunity to be in sample (be represented in sample)
