PSYCH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Social Desirability Bias, Psych, Social Comparison Theory
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A lot of times we have more information about a person than we can use to make an to other people. Some of this information comes from comparing this person compared. If they"re behaving differently than other people, we"re likely to make. If they"re behaving the same as everyone else, then were" unsure, When somebody does something that"s very different or weird, then we really think they must have meant to do it, it must have been internal to them. Kelley said something that is socially desirable would disallow to. If they behave one way only one time, we may be more likely to search for an external reason for why this occurred. If there is something distinctive about this particular situation in time, or is there some type of pattern in other situations in which they act the same way. A student was always late for meetings, consistently.
