The Wisest One in the Room: How You Can Benefit from Social Psychology’s Most Powerful Insights

  • Some participants heard “the eel was on the axle” and others heard “the hel was on the orange”… the participants reported hearing a cohrent sentence without registering the gap (1) – age 19 1
  • Liberals think that hter is more support for their candidates, and their views on contentious social and politic issues than cosnervatives do, and vice versa (2) – page 22 1?
  • The more the othe persons views differ from the respondents’, the more the other’s views were chalkedup to bias rather than rational considerations (3) – page 29 1
  • Both white and minority students belived atht he other goru’s race would get in the way of htier ability to se the issues clear,y but neither group that their own race would bias their jdgment (4) – page 32 1
  • Participants gave their own estaimtes much more weight than their partners.. they paid a heavy cost for diong so… they consistenty did less well than they could have done if they simply averaged their estimate with their partners (5) – page 39 1
  • The effectiveness of the “sign up here and now appeals” increased participation over the fourdrives (6) – page 46 2
  • Those who fled Hurricane Katrina were described as “intelligent” and “self-relaint”, werheas those who staye dbehind were described as “foolish” or “lazy” (7) – page 67 2
  • Supervisors nominated students who were very likely to cooperate and very unlikely to cooperate… these nominations proed to have no predictive power… instead, the name of the game (Wall Street vs Community Game) had a major effect (8) – page 76-77 3
  • Volunteering to be an organ donor in a counry with an opt-in policy is seen as a much more substantial actiona than in a contry with an opt-out policy (9) – page 80 3
  • People are more supportive of taxes on the rich when the existing level of income ineuqality is described in terms of how much more the rich earn than the median wage earner than when it is descrbiend in terms of how much less the median wage earner earns than the rich (10) – page 91 3?
  • 84 percent of phsicians chose a more life-threatening treatment when told htat “90 percent suvive” while only 50 percent chose the more life-threatening treatment when told that “10percent die” (11) – page 94 3?
  • People are more liekly to buy something that costs 318 pounds than 6395 pesos, even if both costs are identical (12) – page 96 3
  • People’s behavior is often more predictive of their attitudes than their attidues are of htier behavior (13) – page 108 4?
  • 90 percent of thse who changed political party affiation incorrectly recalled ther earlier affilation (14) – page 111 4?
  • Consistent with the idea that parents idealize te raising of a child in part to jstify all the yputinto it, those wh were reminded only of the ocsts agred with these statemtns signfiicantly more than those who were also remined of the eocomic beniefst htat childrencan provide parents in their later years (15) – page 118 4
  • People value products more if they pay a high price for them (16) – pgae 119 4?
  • East and West Germany ar ethought to be both more similar and more dissimilar than Ceylon and Nepal…. Because theese participnts knew more about Europe, they could think of more ways in which East and West Germany eithe differed or were the same (17) – page 141 5
  • When people rae necouraged to ask themsleves “Why might bmy imprsesion be wrong” or “Why might the opposite be true?” they tend to show les sof a confirmaion bias and make far more accurate assessments (18) – page 147 5
  • Individuals who were given accurate feedback on the amount of alcohol consumed by their peers reported 20 percent less alcohol consumption (19) – page 154 5?
  • Volunteers rate watching television as pleasurable, buy after watching TV, few feel satisfaction (20) – pages 168-169 6
  • Experiences of raising a child is difficult, yet many parents say that raising a child is the msot rewarding thing they have ever done (21) – pages 168-169 6
  • Pleasure is much less subject to comparisons when it is experiential rather than possessions (2) – page 179 6?
  • In one condition, the offer was characterized as having been the offer that the negotiator had intiially intended to propse… In the other ondition, the negotiator created a “new offer” that he calimed was made in light of the student’s specific goals and priorities… 63 percent of students accepted the “new offer” but only 40 percent accepted the initil offer (23) – page 210 7?
  • Half were told that virtually all previous pairs of negotiators had been ale to reach an agreement… the other half were todl nothing…  85 percent agreemnt rate was reached when particiapnts believed an agreement was likey, while only 35 percent in the other group reached agreement (24) – page 212 7
  • When the player was thought to be black, subjects who listened to an audio recording of the basketball game believed the plaer exhbited more atheltic ability… when he was white,they believed he exhibited more basketball intelligence (25) – page 222 8
  • Students who received a “growth mindset” intervention decreased course failure rate from 48 to 40 percent (26) – page 229 8?
  • Studnts who feel anxous or lack confidence when facing a challenging often remove the sting of failure by arranging a good excuse for falling short (27) – page 231 8?
  • When honest feedback was accompanied with a clear signal that the mentor is judignt the work against high standards and an assurance that the menotr fulyl belives the student can meet those tough standards, more students accepted an invitation to revise and resubmit htier essays…those receiving this feedback ended up handing in better essays (28) – page 238 8
  • Reading that it was common for students to feel that they don’t belong but that these feelings will ease over time led to better coping with stress and adversity (29) – page 240 8?

 

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