234 lecs 8 & 9

Social psych

Festinger & Carlsmith, 1959

Steps in research process

Concluding Causality

Illusion of transparency

Spotlight effect

Gilovich (2000) spotlight effect study

How to improve self esteem

William James on self esteem

Efficacy of self-affirmations

Leary (1998) on Self Esteem

Dark side of self esteem (Heatherington & Vohs, 2000)

Life satisfaction (Schwarz & Clore, 1983)

Dutton & Aron, 1974
Suspension bridge

Are we good at predicting our behaviour?
(egs)

Kruger & Dunning (1999)
Judging own ability study

Affective forecasting problems:

Affective forecasting (Wilson et al, 2005)

Why is affective forecasting poor?
(3 things)

Self-serving biases
(definition)

Self serving biases
(2 egs)

False consensus

False uniqueness

Why self serving biases?
(3 egs)

Snap judgements accuracy

Implicit personality theories
(and how they work)

Faces (Zebrowitz et al 2005)

Central traits (Asch, 1946)

Biases in impressions (Asch, 1946)

Which is stronger, Negative or Positive information?

Physical appearance (Dion, Berscheid & Walster, 1972)

Schemas

Robber's cave (Sherif, 1966)

Rumour experiment (Allport & Postman, 1947)