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 language | American English |
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State | Published - 2015 |
Event | Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology - Long Beach, United States Duration: Feb 26 2015 → … |
Conference
Conference | Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Long Beach |
Period | 2/26/15 → … |
Keywords
- attachment theory
- confirmation bias
- Frozen
- canalization
- attachment styles
- self-fulfilling prophecy
Disciplines
- Child Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- Social Psychology