up:: [[Social Psychology MOC]] Tags:: #🗺️ # Construal > "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - Shakespeare [[Construals]] are our subjective interpretations of things. I believe this is such an important concept in psychology that I'm going to say it again. Your interpretations of the same objective thing can and will be different from others. [[Your judgements of events hurt you, not the events themselves]]. This is similar in idea to perception in [[Sensation and Perception]]. ###### What are the four most important aspects affecting construal? [[The five most important aspects which affect our construal]] #### What are the three C's of judgement and decision making? 1. Construal 2. Context dependence 3. Constructed preferences ###### What are the three ways we can see our construals of the world? 1. "I see the world the way I see it." 2. "I see the world the way it is." This reminds me of [[Naive realism]] and the [[Objectivity illusion]]. 3. "There isn't anything until I see it." [[Examples of how our construals effect us]] # Resources