Transcript Silver Stars - Professor Fell

01
Beyond Feelings
Chapter 8
The Basic Problem
“Mine Is Better”
The Basic Problem:
02
Our things
are not an
extension of
ourselves…ei
ther are our
thoughts
Video: I Am
Egocentric People
03
“God! Libya! Gadaffi!”
Ethnocentric People
Ethnocentric people believe:
04

their group is fundamentally and
completely superior to other groups
✢the motivations and intentions of other
groups is suspect
Controlling “Mine-Is-Better”
Thinking
05
Critical thinkers control mine-is-better thinking because…
✢our preferences can prevent us from identifying flaws in
our own ideas
✢ our preferences can prevent us from seeing and
building on other people’s ideas
✢ it creates a willingness to uncritically accept ideas that
match our own
✢ it leaves us open to manipulation by people within our
group
Chapter 9
06
Errors of Perspective
Errors of Perspective
07
…influence the way we evaluate issues, create expectations &
bias our thought patterns
7 Errors of Perspective:
--poverty of aspect
--unwarranted assumption
--the either/or outlook
--mindless conformity
--absolutism
--relativism
--bias for or against change
…are like wearing glasses with smudges
on the lenses but not knowing!
Poverty of Aspect
…the limitation that comes from taking a narrow
perspective rather than a broad view on problems & issues.
08
College Baseball’s Psychology Major
Unwarranted Assumptions
09
Draw 4 straight lines so that they pass through all 9 dots.
Do not lift your pen/pencil.
Do not touch any dot more than once.
…ideas that are taken for granted rather than produced by
conscious thought.
The Either/Or Outlook
10
…the expectation that the only reasonable view of any issue
is either total affirmation or total rejection.
If homosexuality is wrong
and abortion is wrong then…
Some ideas fall in a gray area
Mindless Conformity
…conformity that is unreasonable and/or unreasoning.
11
VIDEO: Asch’s Elevator
Experiment
VIDEO: Asch’s Line Length
Experiment
Absolutism
…the belief that there must be rules
but no exceptions.
12
Can you think of
any exceptions to
this commandment?
Relativism
…the belief that the existence of exceptions proves there can
be no rules.
13
Bias for or Against Change
14
…lacking a balanced perspective on change, believing that
change is always bad or always good.
14-2
8-8