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The New Car A pleasant announcer promises you that your social life will have lots of pizzazz if you buy his company’s new car – the Pizzazz-mobile. ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ One Bad Apple The president of the most successful company in town has developed some strong preferences in her hiring practices. She had a bad experience with a graduate of your college three years ago. As a result, the company will no longer employ anyone graduating from your college, even though the legality of this practice seems questionable. ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ The Blind Date Your friend sets you up with a blind date. He describes your date as someone who has strong interests in the environment. At the start of the evening, your date proposes a walk along the beach and during that walk, picks up cans and shoves them into a backpack. You conclude that the rumored interest in environmental issues is true. ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ The Burglars A recent newspaper reporter speculated that a full moon may have an enhancing effect on criminal behavior because crimes, especially breaking and entering, seem to increase dramatically when the moon is full. The reporter cited interviews with several leading mental health specialists who have noted a “full moon effect” in other areas of mental health management. ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 16
Key for Thinking Critically with Psychological Science The Tanned Rock Queen Principle 2: Don’t settle for cause-effect statements without sufficient evidence. Personal testimony is not effective evidence even when it is given by someone famous. How do you know the rock star isn’t fresh from a cruise to the Caribbean? The Moralizer Principle 1: Don’t expect simple cause-effect relationships. Violence is a complicated behavior that has multiple causes. Principle 4: Don’t mistake correlation for causation. Two alternative explanations are: 1) that heavy metal music reflects a violent culture rather than causing violence within the culture, and 2) that both heavy metal music and violence are caused by other variables. The Laundry Principle 5: Do look for experimental comparisons that involve control conditions. Although television Moms do demonstrate questionable reality testing, this test included good controls in design; if all conditions were equal, the experiment should provide valid evidence that the new detergent is more effective. The New Car Principle 6: Do examine how behaviors are defined or operationalized. Just what does “pizzazz” mean? How does the company operationally define the goal? Will you have more dates? More intense contacts with loan officers? More challenges to drag race? More speeding tickets? One Bad Apple Principle 2: Don’t settle for cause-effect statements without sufficient evidence. Subjective experience with one representative of a group is likely to be insufficient in making judgments about all the representatives of a group. Beware of making generalized conclusions about groups based on experience with one representative. This is sometimes referred to as the “N of 1” error, when N represents sample size. The Blind Date Principle 3: Don’t confuse interpretations of behavior with behavior itself. Recycling discarded cans on a date could represent a serious commitment to the environment, but it could also mean that your date is just broke (or cheap). Remember to distinguish actual behavior from the inferences or conclusions you draw about the behavior. Burglars Principle 4: Don’t mistake correlation for causation. Even though a “full moon effect” may be an appealing explanation for unlawful or extraordinary behavior, there is a simpler and more plausible explanation than unexplained lunar forces. A full moon may provide more light, enabling burglars to see better and to break in more easily. 17
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