PSY-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Desirability Bias
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When we"re looking at someone"s behavior, we know what they did and what. We"re trying to make internal attributions something about them caused them to they could have done (they had a choice between the behaviors) choose that particular behavior. Common effects: things that are similar across behavioral array. Non common effects: things that are different across behavioral array. Able to make stronger internal attribution with the extend that there is just one non-common effect and many common; if one thing is different, easier to see why people choose path of behavior. Ex: watching a miss teen usa contest. Dr. d was rooting for this girl because he was rooting for maine. So, now we want to narrow it down to the one thing that is different to decide why he chose to root for the girl from maine (since he had a choice to root for other girls as well)
