“When trying to get people to change familiar ways of doing things, social pressures and constraints exerted by the informal peer group represent the most potent restraining force that must be overcome and, at the same time, the most powerful… — Lee Ross Copy Share Image
“The first principle concerns the power and subtlety of situational influences. The second involves the importance of people’s subjective interpretations of the situation. The… — Lee Ross Copy Share Image
“The channel factor principle, thus, is one key to understanding why some situational factors have bigger effects than might be anticipated and why some… — Lee Ross Copy Share Image
“Social psychology stands at the intersection between our eyes and the world in front of us, and helps us understand the difference between what… — Lee Ross Copy Share Image
“People’s inflated belief in the importance of personality traits and dispositions, together with their failure to recognize the importance of situational factors in affecting… — Lee Ross Copy Share Image
“When trying to get people to change familiar ways of doing things, social pressures and constraints exerted by the informal peer group represent the… — Lee Ross Copy Share Image
“people often make correct predictions on the basis of erroneous beliefs and defective prediction strategies.” — Lee Ross Copy Share Image