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Social Psychology book cover
Social Psychology, 7/e
David G Myers, Hope College
Social Beliefs and Judgments

Chapter Outline

Explaining Others

  1. Attributing Causality: To the Person or the Situation?
    1. Inferring Traits
    2. Commonsense Attributions
    3. Information Integration
  2. The Fundamental Attribution Error
    1. The Fundamental Attribution Error in Everyday Life
  3. Why Do We Make the Attribution Error?
    1. Perspective and Situational Awareness
    2. Cultural Differences
  4. How Fundamental Is the Fundamental Attribution Error?
  5. Why We Study Attribution Errors

Constructing Interpretations and Memories

  1. Perceiving and Interpreting Events
  2. Belief Perseverance
  3. Constructing Memories
    1. Reconstructing Past Attitudes
    2. Reconstructing Past Behavior
    3. Reconstructing Our Experiences

Judging Others

  1. Thinking Without Awareness
    1. The Powers of the Unconscious
    2. The Limits of Intuition
  2. Judgmental Overconfidence
    1. Remedies for Overconfidence
  3. Heuristics
    1. Representativeness Heuristic
    2. The Availability Heuristic
    3. Counterfactual Thinking
  4. Illusory Thinking
    1. Illusory Correlation
    2. Illusion of Control
  5. Mood and Judgment

Self-Fulfilling Beliefs

  1. Teacher Expectations and Student Performance
  2. Getting from Others What We Expect

Conclusions

Personal Postscript: Reflecting on Intuition's Powers and Limits









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