PSYCH 160 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Hindsight Bias, Cognitive Dissonance, Homicide
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Pressing problems (e. g. climate change, sexual harassment) and everyday challenges (e. g. getting along with each other) can be informed by ndings in social psychology. Even in familiar situations, we may wrongly predict how people will behave. Our opinions about why we behave as we do can be mistaken. Many behavioral in uences are of nonconscious + nonverbal forms. Hindsight bias: the tendency to believe you could"ve predicted an outcome you"ve learned about, when in fact you couldn"t have. Hearing a fact thinking of reasons it could be true thinking we could"ve predicted the outcome. Hypothesis: a prediction about what will happen under particular circumstances e. g. when people work hard for something that turns out to be disappointing, they will be motivated to nd hidden bene ts in what they acquired . Theory: a set of related propositions intended to describe some aspect of the world.
