“Chapter 7 takes a psychological truism, “we tend to believe what we think others believe” and turns it around: We tend to… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“social psychologist Ziva Kunda, who argues that people are indeed more likely to believe things they want to believe, but that their… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“Consider the common belief among some segments of the population that “the only way to get anywhere with the opposite sex is… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“Asymmetries in hedonic and instrumental consequences can also lead to the formation and maintenance of beliefs that can have more serious consequences,… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“A person’s conclusions can only be as solid as the information on which they are based. Thus, a person who is exposed… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“The false consensus effect refers to the tendency for people’s own beliefs, values, and habits to bias their estimates of how widely… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged. — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“We hold many dubious beliefs, in other words, not because they satisfy some important psychological need, but because they seem to be… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“With respect to the formation of erroneous beliefs, the implications of people’s difficulties in detecting covariation should be clear. By placing too… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“Our motivations thus influence our beliefs through the subtle ways we choose a comforting pattern from the fabric of evidence.” — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“The most favorable attitudes toward ESP were found in a survey of Canadian college students, of whom 80% reported a belief in… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“One of the simplest and yet most powerful ways we do so lies in how we frame the very question we ask… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“Chapter 7 takes a psychological truism, “we tend to believe what we think others believe” and turns it around: We tend to think others… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“As part of this research, one group of participants was asked which two countries are more similar to one another, East Germany and West… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“Finally, it has been shown that the tendency for people to think of themselves as above average is reduced—even for ambiguous traits—when people are… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“It appears that the probabilistic sciences of psychology and medicine teach their students to apply statistical and methodological rules to both scientific and everyday-life… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“To live, it seems, is to explain, to justify, and to find coherence among diverse outcomes, characteristics, and causes.” — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“social psychologist Ziva Kunda, who argues that people are indeed more likely to believe things they want to believe, but that their capacity to… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient,… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“our difficulty in accurately recognizing random arrangements of events can lead us to believe things that are not true—to believe something is systematic, ordered,… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“We therefore should be more skeptical than we seem to be about evidence presented to us secondhand. We should become accustomed to asking ourselves… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“In other words, when testing a hypothesis of similarity, people look for evidence of similarity rather than dissimilarity, and when testing a hypothesis of… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“develop the habit of employing one of several “consider the opposite” strategies. We can learn to ask ourselves, for example, “Suppose the exact opposite… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
