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