While eating at a restaurant, you see a waiter’s serving tra…
While eating at a restaurant, you see a waiter’s serving tray tilt and an avalanche of food and beverages splatters on four people. “What a careless, clumsy idiot,” you mumble to yourself as you resume eating. When you spill a glass of water all over your table you say “Oops, that glass must have been too close to my elbow.” You have just committed an attributional bias called:
Read DetailsSteven Spielberg’s classic movie Jaws was a thriller about a…
Steven Spielberg’s classic movie Jaws was a thriller about a great white shark that terrorized tourists at a local beach. Just before the shark’s appearance, eerie music began playing. As the unseen shark came closer, the tempo of the music picked up. After the audience had experienced this a few times, the sound of the music triggered the emotional reaction of fear in the audience even though the shark still had not appeared. At that point, the sound of the eerie music was a/an:
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