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How other people shape our thoughts and actions, and why we sometimes go along against our own judgment.
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Social Psychology: Social cognition and attribution · Attribution Theory
How people explain the causes of behavior, and the predictable biases that bend those explanations.
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Social Psychology: Why Good People Go Along
How other people quietly shape what we notice, believe, choose and do, from conformity and persuasion to helping and aggression.
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From Social Psychology: Social cognition and attribution · Attribution Theory
In a 1967 study, readers were told essay writers had been assigned their position. What did readers still conclude?
- The essays revealed nothing about the writers
- The writers secretly opposed their essays
- The writers held the views they wrote
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Answer: The writers held the views they wrote
In Jones and Harris's study, even knowing the stance was assigned, readers judged writers of pro-Castro essays as more pro-Castro, a classic demonstration of correspondence bias.
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