SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

CHAPTER 3: SOCIAL BELIEFS AND JUDGEMENTS

How do we judge our social worlds, consciously and unconsciously?

Priming

Intuitive Judgements
• The Powers of Intuition
• The Limits of Intuition

Overconfidence
• Confirmation Bias
• Remedies for Overconfidence

Heuristic: Mental Shortcuts

• The Representativeness Heuristic
• The Availability Heuristic

Counterfactual Thinking

Illusory Thinking
• Illusory Correlation
• Gambling
• Regression Toward the Average

Moods and Judgements

How do we perceive our social worlds?

Perceiving and Interpreting Events

• Political Perception

Belief Perseverance

Conducting Memories of Ourselves and Our Worlds

• Reconstructing our Past Attitudes
 • Reconstructing our Past Behavior

How do we explain ourselves?

Attributing Causality: To the Person or the Situation

• Inferring Traits

The Fundamental Attribution Error

• Perspective and Situational Awareness
• Cultural Differences

How do our social beliefs matter?

Teacher Expectations and Student Performance

Getting from Others What We Expect

What can we conclude about social beliefs and judgements?

Long Topics:
Priming
The powers of intuition
Overconfidence
Availability heuristic
Attributing Causality
Fundamental Attribution Error
Cultural Differences
Teacher Expectations
Getting from others what we expect
What can we conclude about social beliefs and judgements?