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Title: Your roommate is a case study in faulty and biased social thinking. You've just read Chapter 3, and ...
Post by: Alex dope on Jan 21, 2018
Your roommate is a case study in faulty and biased social thinking. You've just read Chapter 3, and you notice his inappropriate use of schemas and judgmental heuristics. How might you combat these troublesome tendencies?
 
  What will be an ideal response?


Title: Your roommate is a case study in faulty and biased social thinking. You've just read Chapter 3, and ...
Post by: kadu31 on Jan 21, 2018
Answer: You might combat his overconfidence barrier, making him a little more humble in his assessments of his own cognitive prowess; more specifically, you might ask him to consider the opposite point of viewto consider how things might have come out otherwise. You might recommend that he take a college or university course in statistics or the scientific method or that he pursue graduate work in psychology.