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Hi. We last left off by talking about the idea
that we all have social information processing biases, and
that comes from the experiences we had in childhood and adolescence with popularity.
Our peers from back when we were kids are still affecting how we see things, how we
interpret things, what we want, and the behaviors that we engage in to this day.
What we're going to talk about now are a couple of very common biases
that we've seen in the research literature,
that really tell us a lot about why some kids with peer rejection
experiences grow up to have difficulties across many domains in their lives.
And the first of these is referred to a hostile attribution bias.
Specifically this is referring to the cue interpretation phase.
But what we found is that people with a hostile attribution bias that actually
affects all the different areas of social information processing.
And here is how we study it with young kids.
Kids might look at a little picture like this, and they're read a story.
This one says, imagine you're sitting at a lunch table at school, eating lunch.
You look up and
you see another child coming over to your table with a carton of milk.
You turn around to eat your lunch, and
the next thing that happens is that the child spills milk all over your back.
The milk gets your shirt all wet.
Why did the child get milk all over your back?
And that story is read and then kids are just asked,
tell us why you think that happened?
And then, that information can be coded.
Most people will say that it was an accident, the milk probably spilled and
that's how the milk all got on the back and it's okay.
But there are some kinds that would say, no, that was done on purpose.
That was done because that kid was being mean and
because they were trying to get milk all over me.
