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| attributing our own success to internal factors and our failures to external factors |
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| blaming others for their misfortune |
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| defensive attribution is related to |
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just world hypothesis
good ppl dont suffer and karma |
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| defensive attribution plays a self protective function- |
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| schema is that the world makes sense if im good good things will happen to me |
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• Using Heuristics/shortcuts for attributions
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| • Save time, req. less info, reduce cognitive effort |
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| heuristics for attributions helps explain and protect |
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| • Help us explain the world around us and protect us from “cognitive fog”= not being able to make decisions. |
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| disadv to shortcuts in attributions |
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can be wrong
over confident in belief or opinion
reject valid info that threatens our thought |
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| • Cognitive coherence model: |
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| we are motivated to keep perceptions, memories, cognitions, and causal relations coherent. |
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| • Appear to be motivated to invest some cognitive effort to create coherence, but want to reduce that effort whenever possible |
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| cognitive conservatism create coherence |
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| motivated to align beliefs w/evidence ( |
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| alternative view of common sense law |
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| behavior creates belief that supports it |
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| beliefs dont match behavior |
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| Cognitive dissonance• Assumptions |
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Actions and beliefs should be coherent
Dissonance (tension) occurs when inconsistencies exist. We are motivated to remove that tension |
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| • Can elminate tension in 3 ways: |
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reduce the importance
Add more consistent beliefs that outweigh
Change the dissonant belief |
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