12 Questions
What is the main characteristic of motivated reasoning?
The tendency to come to conclusions that make one feel good
What is the name of the effect where people tend to believe they are above average in valued domains?
The Lake Wobegon Effect
What is the term for the tendency to believe that one is more moral than others?
The Holier Than Thou Effect
What is the name of the bias that involves searching for information that confirms one's prior beliefs?
Confirmation Bias
What is the term for the phenomenon where people's expectations about a target's behavior creates that behavior among the target?
The Pygmalion Effect
What are the two universal dimensions of social cognition?
Warmth and Competence
What is the concept that describes the phenomenon where people experience psychological discomfort due to holding contradictory beliefs or experiencing a conflict between beliefs and reality?
Cognitive Dissonance
What is the name of the researcher who conducted the study on cognitive dissonance, known as 'When Prophecy Fails'?
Festinger
What is the term for when people behave in a way that confirms their expectations about someone?
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
What is the term for the strong tendency to maintain cognitive consistency?
Cognitive Consistency
According to the 'When Prophecy Fails' study, what happens to people's beliefs when a prophecy fails to come true?
They experience cognitive dissonance
What is the method people use to resolve cognitive dissonance, according to Festinger's theory?
Choose the path of least resistance
Understand the motivated reasoning tendency and its implications on our decision-making processes. Learn about the reluctance to admit faults, the Above-Average Effect, and the Lake Wobegon effect.
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