PSY230H1 Lecture 8: psy230 pt4
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We like ocmpetence because we like to be right. We have more chances of being right if we are around competent people. We don"t like people who are too competent because they seem superhman/unapproachable. Fallibility in a highly competent person makes person more liked. College men listen to a audio recording featuring a perfect person, a nearly perfect person who blunders, a mediocre, and a mediocre who blunders. The recording was of an interview containing extremely difficult questions. (perfect person gets (cid:373)ost of these rights, and ad(cid:373)its athleti(cid:272)/ editor of year(cid:271)ook(like that"s a(cid:374) achievement lol) Greatest to least like : nearly perfect who blunders, perfect person, mediocre, mediocre who makes the same blunder. Pratfall effect found in males more because it holds most clearly when there is an implicit threat of competition in the mind of an observer. Males in study prefer competence + blunder, females are all bout dat competence.
