Faculty
Social Science
Supervisor Name
Dr. Paul Tremblay
Keywords
hostile attribution bias, habits, habit formation, self control, cues, social information processing
Description
Within Social and Personality Psychology, we have not done a good job of integrating the knowledge base of habit formation into our theoretical models, even though it is clear that habits fall within the larger domain of traits. This project reviewed the literature on the hostile attribution bias as well as habits, and found a connection between these two topics that has scarcely been explored. Both context cues and self control were found to be important for the development of bad habits as well as the presence of the hostile attribution bias. Based on the connections made, habit formation may be influential in the formation of the hostile attribution bias. Finally, a research proposal is presented to demonstrate a direction for future research to explore these two topics together.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Dr. Paul Tremblay for his support throughout this project.
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Document Type
Poster
Connecting the Hostile Attribution Bias with Habit Formation
Within Social and Personality Psychology, we have not done a good job of integrating the knowledge base of habit formation into our theoretical models, even though it is clear that habits fall within the larger domain of traits. This project reviewed the literature on the hostile attribution bias as well as habits, and found a connection between these two topics that has scarcely been explored. Both context cues and self control were found to be important for the development of bad habits as well as the presence of the hostile attribution bias. Based on the connections made, habit formation may be influential in the formation of the hostile attribution bias. Finally, a research proposal is presented to demonstrate a direction for future research to explore these two topics together.