Social & Developmental Psychology Accounts of Attachment Theory with the Confirmation Bias & Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

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Abstract

Canalization is a profound mechanism illustrating the confirmation bias and a self-fulfilling prophecy while covering relationships, allowing psychology instructors to draw connections across topics. Here I describe how, using the Disney movie Frozen, I explain attachment styles to students without caricature and help students appreciate why we form insecure attachments rationally in less-than-ideal childhood circumstances. I perform an interactive demonstration with students illustrating how internal working models helpful during our childhoods can persist into adulthood, even when they outlive their usefulness, because of canalization, our inherent confirmation bias, and self-fulfilling prophecy.
Original languageAmerican English
StatePublished - 2015
EventAnnual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology - Long Beach, United States
Duration: Feb 26 2015 → …

Conference

ConferenceAnnual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLong Beach
Period2/26/15 → …

Keywords

  • attachment theory
  • confirmation bias
  • Frozen
  • canalization
  • attachment styles
  • self-fulfilling prophecy

Disciplines

  • Child Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology

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