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Perceiving our social world
            Priming
            Perceiving and interpreting events
            Belief perseverance
            Constructing memories of ourselves and out worlds

Judging our social world
            Intuitive judgments
            Overconfidence
            Heuristics: Mental shortcuts
            Illusory thinking
            Moods and judgments
            Research close-up: Negative emotions make pessimistic investors

Explaining our social world
            Attributing causality: To the person or the situation
            The fundamental attribution error

Expectations of our social world
            Focus on: The self-fulfilling psychology of the stock market
            Teacher expectations and student performance
            Getting from other what we expect

Conclusions
            Focus on: How journalists think: Cognitive bias in newsmaking

Postscript: Reflecting on illusory thinking







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