PSYC 307 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Crop Yield, Protestant Work Ethic, East Asian Languages
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Self-serving biases: tendencies for people to exaggerate how good they think they are: study: asked american college prof to evaluate how good they were at being a professor. 94% of them thought they were better than the average american college professor: usually approx. Downward social comparison: comparing your performance with someone whose performance is worse than yours: create favorable comparison cast our performance in positive light. Upward social comparison: comparing your performance with someone whose performance is better than yours: in many situations it"s usually painful contrasts makes your performance worse. Discounting (your setbacks): reducing the perceived importance of the domain in which you performed poorly: e. g. Who really cares about chemistry anyway, i"m not going to become a chemist . External attribution: attribute cause of their actions to something outside themselves. Internal attribution: attribute cause of their actions within ourselves (e. g. our abilities) We than they if team has won recently games.
