PSYC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Dune, Positive Illusions, Social Rejection
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(cid:862)it"s a (cid:449)o(cid:374)de(cid:396)ful life(cid:863: bank run (want money out of the bank, bank runs out of money) People hear a rumor and start to worry that their money is not safe in the bank. Many start to demand to take their money out, others see this and do the same. The bank eventually cannot pay everyone and so goes out of business. Because money you deposit is lent out to borrowers, who cannot immediately return it to the bank. Merton 1948: a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning (proph tie autor alisatrice) We know about the belief-confirming effects of schemas, confirmation bias, and motivated cognition: these involves biases in perceiving reality. Maye smt reality actually does confirm our belief- but only because we have.
