PSYC 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Milgram Experiment, High High, Covariance
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It repairs the self in the face of a threat. Opponent is not being deliberately difficult psychological barriers at work. Bias blind spot -- you think you"re immune: some degree of attributional charity is warranted maybe there are some psychological processes at work for them and you too. Social perception: impressions and inferences about the source/cause of their behaviors. Heider (1958) introduced idea of the attribution theory when assessing the cause of other people"s behavior. Deciding between certain attributes : internal (person variables, dispositional variables, external (situational) Ned jones introduced the correspondent inference theory inference that your behavior is a result of your disposition (correspondence between internal attributions and behavior) When are these internal attributions justified: when there are few noncommon (unique) effects. When someone makes a choice and the effects of those two choices are about the same, but the person still made a choice, so that tells us about the person.
