PSYC 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Confirmation Bias, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Twin Study
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Why look at research when we have all of these options (sarcasm) Snake oil this is the product that"s going to make you healthy all natural things . Rebirthing you emerge from this with resolving your issues . Made really popular by word of mouth from a friend, celebrity, etc . In colorado, it resulted as a death of a 10-year-old girl. Hot yoga the environment created by heat adds to the therapeutic process . Combat ptsd and swimming with the sharks veterans feel better after these experiences . You tend to look at websites/blogs that already confirm things you believe. Testimonials (marketing: testimonials generator: you pay for this website that can generate a viral testimonial for websites or products. Empirical verifiable by observation, experience, data (by many other people) Representative (sample should be representative of the entire population) *just because you find a correlation, doesn"t mean that is the only cause/a true cause*
