PSY 319K Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Regression Fallacy, Pluralistic Ignorance, Social Cognition
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Illusory correlation: the belief that two variables are correlated when in fact they are not. The information available for social cognition: social cognition depends first on information. Minimal information: inferring personality from physical appearance: we still make judg(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts e(cid:448)e(cid:374) (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e suffi(cid:272)ie(cid:374)t i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374) snap judgments, a great deal of what we conclude about people based on their faces is determined almost instantaneously. Judgments based on (cid:862)thi(cid:374) sli(cid:272)es(cid:863) of behavior have a certain sort of validity. It"s still p(cid:396)o(cid:271)a(cid:271)l(cid:455) u(cid:374)(cid:449)ise to (cid:373)ake (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)it(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts to people (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) s(cid:374)ap judg(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts. Misleading firsthand information: self-fulfilling prophecies: we (cid:272)a(cid:374) fail to (cid:374)oti(cid:272)e that ou(cid:396) o(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396) has (cid:271)(cid:396)ought a(cid:271)out (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e"(cid:396)e seei(cid:374)g, our expectations lead us to behave in ways that elicit the very behavior we expect from others. Misleading secondhand information: a comprehensive understanding of social cognition requires an analysis of how accurate secondhand information is likely to be.
