SYSTEMATIC VERSUS HEURISTIC PROCESSING 1. 2. 3. 4. Time Cognitive overload Importance Information The naïve scientist The cognitive miser SOCIAL COGNITION
Availability Anchoring The false consensus effect Representativeness HEURISTICS SOCIAL COGNITION THE MOTIVATED TACTICIAN
Why: • Cognitively efficient • Provides meaning SOCIAL COGNITION Stereotype threat SOCIAL CATEGORISATION When: • Temporal primacy • Perceptual salience • Chronic accessibility Prejudice Consequences Assimilation and contrast