![]() ![]() Given our egocentric nature (along with our desire for nice, neat little packages and patterns), when we process vague information, we hold on to what we deem meaningful to us and discard what is not. As our minds make such connections to consolidate our own personal understanding of the world, it is easy to see how people can tend to process vague information and interpret it in a manner that makes it seem personal and specific to them. With that, if there are gaps in our thinking of how we understand things, we will try to fill those gaps in with what we intuitively think makes sense, subsequently reinforcing our existing schema(s). If it didn’t, we would have no pre-existing routine to fall back on and we’d have to think harder to contextualise new information. The Barnum Effect)Īs in the case of Declinism, to better understand the Forer effect (commonly known as the Barnum Effect), it’s helpful to acknowledge that people like their world to make sense. Tangentially, my wife is a much better driver than I am.ġ2. If we were that driver, we’d judge ourselves as driving poorly because of these reasons, not because of who we are. She’s had a particularly tough day and now she’s running late with all of the kids because she couldn’t leave work at the normal time. But what you probably don’t know is that the other driver has three children yelling and goofing around in the backseat, while she’s trying to get one to soccer, one to dance, and the other to a piano lesson. The fundamental attribution error kicks in when you make the judgment that their driving is poor because they’re a woman (also tying on to an unfounded stereotype). ![]() You decide to overtake them (so as to no longer be stuck behind such a dangerous driver) and as you look over, you see a female behind the wheel. The other driver is swerving a bit and unpredictably starts speeding up and slowing down. One of the best textbook examples of this integrates stereotyping: Imagine you are driving behind another car.
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