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skymedlock

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When people are making decisions among several different choices (e.g., choosing a car to purchase), there are several patterns of irrational thought to which they commonly fall prey. Please identify and discuss three of these.
 
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Describe the different cognitive biases that tend to promote aggression in humans.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a . Risk aversion: The tendency to give disproportionately greater weight to possible losses than to possible gains.
b. Temporal discounting: The tendency to give disproportionately greater weight to present outcomes than future outcomes.
c. The certainty effect: The tendency to give disproportionately greater weight to certain outcomes than to probabilities.
d. Tendencies to keep options open, including the status quo bias and the omission bias.

Answer to Question 2

a) Hostile attribution bias is the tendency to perceive ambiguous actions by others as aggressive.
b) Hostile perception bias is the tendency to perceive social interactions more generally as aggressive.
c) Hostile expectation bias is the tendency to expect others to react to potential conflicts with aggression.


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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
:D TYSM

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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