PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Magical Thinking
24 Dec 2015
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Regression to the mean can also explain perverse contingencies which means that punishment can lead to improvement, praise to bad performance. Black sports uniforms (because of the connotation of black) are rated as more aggressively behave more aggressively; also flagged more often by referees. The more an animal looks like us in terms of mind (smarter, able to read our emotions, interacts with us well), the more reluctant we are to eat it. Availability is influenced by familiarity: people think sharks are more dangerous than cows (because of the broadcasting of the media); but cows kill 22 people in the us every year alone, while sharks kill only 6 people worldwide. Vividness influences availability: in a court case, if the prosecution/defense provides a vivid recount of what happened, the jury is more partial to that side. People are more swayed by other people telling them that a class was great, rather than a brochure giving all the data (course evaluation)
