Critique of the journal article “Why it is so hard to be fair” by Joel Brockner, 2006…
Asserts thoughts that largely shape moods and behaviors. The theory gives the idea to change the way of thinking, emotions will change. The belief ones feelings influence both specific behaviors and general approaches to life (Dewees, Marty 2014 p.108).…
Tversky. A and Kahneman. D, (1982), Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases in JUDGMENT UNDER UNCERTAINTY 3, 11.…
Emotions really affect prejudicial attitudes because most of the time people make decisions based on their emotions. Emotions of fear and sadness or joy and gladness, which can cause you to project feelings in a hurtful way, rather than in a helpful manner…
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”- Mother Teresa (Quotes About Humanity, n.d.) Peace, serenity, and security is what all of us human aim to achieve, but we must not forget the rules, ethics that we need to obey to help us maintain a healthy society. The other day, I discovered that a priest in my town was offering a mother with her one child some assistance with hiding from the powers after she entered the country illegally. This act has left me torn and confused about what I should do whether I should report his act or not.…
Emotions are designed to help people become aware of their special needs. Without emotions, people would not know how to make decisions. Our bodies were made to make decisions based on our emotions. In her article “The Importance of Emotions,” Carla Valencia discusses how emotions are the most important factors in making correct decisions (Valencia 1-2). Valencia explains how positive emotions “not only motivate our existence, but also give enjoyment and happiness” to our lives (3). When we express “negative emotions, on the other hand, [it] impact[s] our lives in a negative way” (3). This affects our decisions because if we “take a decision when [we] feel revenge for example, the results could be dangerous. A negative emotional state leads to a negative behavior” (pg. 3). If people misuse their emotions, it can lead to wrong…
Myers, D. G. (2004) Theories of Emotion. Psychology: Seventh Edition, New York, NY: Worth Publishers.…
The fundamental attribution error is when a person overestimates the influence of another person’s personality over a remark or behavior rather than giving credit to the influence the situation may have on the person. A famous experiment demonstrating this “error” was conducted by David Napolitan and George Goethals. In this experiment, they instructed a woman to act either rude and critical, or warm and friendly to each person individually. Half of the group was told that the woman would be acting spontaneously, and the other half was let in on the experiment. The result was that the assumptions about her personality did not change even though half the group had known that she was an actor. Each group assumed that because the woman behaved coldly, her personality was so. Even the group who was told that her behavior was situational had still believed that she was warm and friendly because of the way she was acting in the situation.…
Today, researchers are more focused on “how people develop their own ideas about other people, that is attribution theory, and the ways these ideas are organized, that is called personal construct theory (Hartley113). The attribution theory, is set to explain how we perceive each other. Once we are able to master the attribution theory, we are able to understand why we perceive each other the way we do; this allows us to analyze what we will say and how we will say something in the future ahead of us, such as in perception checking. Attribution theory determines “how people decide the cause of other people’s actions and vice versa” (Hartley 116). When faced with hard times, it is important that we come to understand that “our perception of other people is inextricably bound up with our perception of the situation that we believe they are in” (Hartley…
Attributions are categorized into three dimensions of causity; these are locus of control, stability and controllability. The locus of control is based on personal beliefs in reference to the magnitude to which actions conclude the outcomes; these are dependent on one of two poles which are either internal or external. The second is stability which determines whether causes change and are affected over time or not. The final is controllability which determines causes which can be controlled from ones that cannot be controlled, such as skill versus luck.…
Have you ever been so scared that you just froze up, couldn't think, couldn't talk and couldn't move? I believe that fear is just in your mind and I believe that you can control your fear, like mind over matter. I believe that you can control your fear just like how you can control your pain, so if you think about your fear or pain a lot and focus on it, it will dramatically increase because you’re focused on it.…
People vary in the way they attribute events, circumstances and certain happenings. It is somewhat puzzling to know why people differ in the way they view certain causes of events. Could this be something that is influenced by their different personalities? Some people may attribute a certain happening to their lives as consequences of their actions, but there are also some people who point towards external factors or situations to be the primary cause of the occurrence of certain events. The way people perceive or blame causes of certain happenings is called Attribution. In social psychology, attribution is referred as the way people perceive and interpret the causes of events and how this relates to their thinking and behavior. Attributions could range from dispositional to something which is uncontrollable and external. However, this paper does not intend to focus on attribution but on certain factors that influence attribution which is called Locus of Control.…
The Attribution Theory is a concept of social psychology that makes reference to how individuals feel the need to provide ‘cause to the events around us’. Fritz Heider first proposed the theory ‘The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations (1958), which was later developed by others such as Harold Kelley and Bernard Weiner. The developed definition of this theory refers to the role of our minds in relation to our social behaviour. There are two main categories within this particular theory, Situational factors, which refer to how one’s environment and external circumstances can influence an individual, whilst Dispositional factors refer to our personality and our traits, factors that are to do with us as people.…
Being fair is the ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty and make sure that every person is treated equally accordingly. When something is fair, it follows all rules without cheating. Fair is when you are not playing favoritism to any specific and everyone is treated equally. It also means treating people in a way that does not favor some over others and everyone is treated within reason. Fairness can be different in every person’s eyes; if something is fair in one person’s eye it can be unfair for someone else. In writer’s opinion, fairness is a very broad word that falls into many aspects of society whether it is within the personal life, career and school life.…
Attribution, defined as assigning a quality or character to a person or an object, in the context of Psychology, refers to the classification of factors that affect behaviour. Behaviour is attributed to either or both dispositional factors and situational factors. Dispositional factors refer to the internal causes of an individual’s behaviour, whilst situational factors deal with the external causes of behaviour which can include the social setting and environment. Two common errors of attribution are the Fundamental attribution error (FAE) and Self-serving bias (SSB).…