PSY BEH 11C Lecture 7: Lecture 7
16 Feb 2017
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Most people have positive feelings about the self. Leads to judgments that are self-enhancing put self in positive light. External attributions for their failures (negative outcomes) o. Majority of people--compared to average person--rate themselves as: And even as less biased in their judgments! If you think that you are super smart then you think you are not bias but you are o. Likelihood of future events, the majority rate themselves as: More likely than everyone else to experience good things. The faster people make these judgment, the more optimistic they are (lench and ditto,2007) We start with base level of optimism that is sort of automatic, it takes more cognition to adjust this optimism to reality takes more cognition to adjust this optimism to reality o. People concern with one self, not thinking of the big picture. You are taught to think of yourself as the best.
