PSYC 241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Belief Perseverance, Confirmation Bias, Rosy Retrospection
11 Nov 2016
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Unattended stimuli can subtly influence how we interpret and recall events. Priming experiments reveal how one thought even without awareness can influence another thought or even an action. Example when people are primed with words like retired, old wise etc and then they (cid:449)alked the(cid:455) (cid:449)alked slo(cid:449)er o(cid:374) a(cid:448)erage tha(cid:374) those (cid:449)ho (cid:449)ere(cid:374)"t pri(cid:373)ed (cid:449)ith these words. Ex: students exposed to the scent of cleaner were faster when identifying cleaning related words, or kept their desks cleaner while eating a cookie. Much of our social information processing is automatic. Embodied cognition: the mutual influence of bodily sensations on cognitive preferences and social judgements. Ex: after holding a warm drink people are more likely to rate someone more warmly and behave more generously. Psychical warmth accentuates social warmth, ad social exclusions literally feels cold. Our first impressions of people are more often right than wrong. When social information is subject to multiple interpretations, preconceptions matter.
