PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Michael Fassbender, Media Consumption, Home United Fc
12 Jan 2015
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35 year old admin assistant & free lance writer: warn all the american students particularly females, that when you leave home for the first time that you can gain some weight, warn them of the freshmen 20 (pounds, on leaving for uni she gained 20 pounds and then another 20 pounds and another (total 60 pounds) Attributional analysis: internal/external, stable/unstable, much easier to try again if you have external and unstable attributions, lack of effort, didn"t push as hard as i needed to effort is internal and changeable which gives us the hope we can do it in the future and envourages us to try again in the future and give more effort. Leading researchers on dieting: wife and husband team, wrote outstanding review article in which they refer to trying to lose weight as a false hop[e, carefully reviewed all evidence that for almost all of us this is going to end badly, very insightful.
