The hindsight bias refers to

In general, when people first encounter a new situation, they tend to

You really want your date to like you and agree to go out again. At the end of the night, it is best to ask him/her for

Kelce and her friends just finished watching a murder mystery movie. Kelce tells her friends that she knew who the killer was all along, even though during the movie she said she didn’t. This is an example of hindsight bias.

You are listening to a radio newscast which describes a person who donated a kidney to a stranger that needed a transplant, when your phone rings and the firemen’s association asks you for a donation. The idea of priming  suggests that you will

One of the worst ways to increase external validity is by conducting a field experiment.

One reason Great Britain led the way in the Industrial Revolution was that it

7.   Calls attention to what follows

By applying the correlational method, social psychology researchers are able to determine the causes of social behavior.

You have read about a number of social phenomena including the young man who broadcast his suicide live online and the 80+ people that committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. What do these examples have in common? They