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Your Roommate Is a Case Study in Faulty and Biased

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Your roommate is a case study in faulty and biased social thinking.You've just read Chapter 3, and you notice his inappropriate use of schemas and judgmental heuristics.How might you combat these troublesome tendencies?


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