Explain the three ways in which distinctiveness can influence stereotypes and distort our judgments.

Explain the three ways in which distinctiveness can influence stereotypes and distort our judgments.



Distinctive people: people pay more attention to those who stand out, thus pick out characteristics that they may not have if they person was not distinctive

Distinctive cases: vivid instances are more available in memory, it makes it easier for our minds to use these shortcuts to make assumptions

Distinctive events: Our attentiveness to distinctive events can create illusory correlations


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