Mood and Beliefs

Mood and Beliefs

Q1. How Mood, Beliefs, Confirmation Bias and Hindsight Effect reduce your ability to reason?

Ans: Mood and emotion add depth and meaning to our lives and to our interactions with other people. Our moods change from day to day, sometimes quite unexpectedly. People frequently evaluate others and themselves (Cacioppo, 2006). They judge others when they choose friends, hire babysitters, write employment references, serve as jurors, and select potential mates. Social cognition is the study of how people come to know themselves, other people, and their social world. Social cognition researchers use systematic research to study how people ...