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Barbara just received a B on her test. She learns that one of her friends got an A on the same test, and another friend got a C. Later that night, Barbara tells her roommate that she did “really well” relative to other people in the class. According to social comparison theory, Barbara appears to have engaged in _______.

According to Tversky and Kahneman, when an initial intuitive assessment of a situation is not modified or overridden by a more deliberative analysis,

Mei was born and raised in China. She is more likely than people raised in Western cultures to

An illusory correlation occurs when

Alex tries to memorize a bunch of theories for their psychology class. Specifically, right after they read about a theory, they think of personal experiences that are relevant to its predictions. According to research on the self-reference effect, Alex’s study strategy should

Your waiter seems to be doing everything wrong. He has forgotten to take your drink order. He delivers someone else’s food to your table. He does not come out and say it, but his facial expressions seem to say he’d rather be someplace else. If you assume his behavior is caused primarily by ____________, your assumption is consistent with the fundamental attribution error.

Social psychologists differ from personality psychologists because social psychologists tend to

How do “information bubbles” support confirmation bias?

According to construal level theory, if you’re imagining working on your thesis in graduate school in several years, you are most likely to be thinking about

Ron tends to act in accordance with his internal inclinations, impulses, and dispositions. As well, he is not very attuned to the social context in which he finds himself. Thus, Ron would score ____________ on a measure of ____________.