PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Central Artery, Illusory Correlation, Planning Fallacy
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Chap 4 social cognition: thinking about people and situations. By studying errors of judgment we can understand how we make judgements and learn to avoid mistakes. Sometimes we have very little information but make judgments anyway as when people make personality judgments based on physical appearance. Judging faces two dimensions positive-native dimension, involving assessments as someone is trustworthy or untrustworthy. Other dimension centers around power, involving such assessments as whether someone seems confident or bashful. Then, people are set to make highly functional judgments about others approached or avoided (dimension1) and likely to stand in a status or power hierarchy (dimension2) Mixed result: mistaken inferences can arise from pluralistic ignorance, which tends to occur when people are reluctant to express their misgiving about a perceived group norm; their reluctance in turn reinforces the false norm. Firsthand more accurate, but can also be deceptive, when we are inattentive to info about events that occur before our eyes.
