《Lecture+17(耶鲁大学-心理学导论讲稿)》.pdf

1 Introduction to Psychology Yale University Lecture 17 Just to review, heres where we left off. The discussion from last lecture and for about half of this lecture is going to be social psychology. And so, we started off by talking about certain fundamental biases in how we see ourselves. We then turned to talk about a bias and how we see other people, the fundamental attribution error. And now were talking a little bit about some aspects of how we see other people. So, we quickly talked about certain aspects of why we like other people including proximity, similarity, and attractiveness, and where we left off was a discussion of the Matthew effect, which is basically that good things tend to compound. If youre rich youll get a better education, if youre smart people will like you more, if youre attractive and so on. Nobody bring up their papers at this point. Theyll collect them at the end of class. What I want to talk to-- [laughter] Okay, except for you. Just hand me it now. [laughter] Im going to ask the teaching fellows to stop anybody from approaching that area. I want to begin by talking about [laughter] impression formation, how we form impressions of others, and tell you a couple of interesting things about impression formation. The first one is, first impressions matter a lot. They matter a lot for different reasons. They might matter a lot because humans have, in general, a confirmation bias such that once you believe something other information is then encoded along the likes to support what you believe. So, the classic study here was done by Kelley where a guest speaker comes in and some of the students received a bio describing the speaker as very warm, the other as--do not bring your paper up if youre coming in late. Just--at the end of class, yeah. [laughter] Others got a bio saying--thanks, Erik--the speaker was rather cold and th