Blog 21: Integrating Quotes 2

We as human beings, make decisions and judge based on information given to us. We often do not fully know the full story to many people, places, and things. Usually, when given information that guide us toward negativity, we think whatever it is we are judging is bad. If we are given positive information, we will think positively. It depends on the outcome. Both Rocio Garcia-Retamero and Jorg Rieskamp, faculty of the University of Granada specializing in psychology, help justify my argument when they said, “when people face an inference situation with missing information, they will, on a basis of learning, most likely apply the mechanism for treating missing information that leads to the best performance.” (Garcia-Retamero and Rieskamp, 1991). The authors are stating that people make opinions based on the information they are given. This is great for explaining why people judge the way they do. For instance, most viewers think Jayne, from Firefly, seems to be a horrible man. The director of the show chooses to let scenes of Jayne’s selfishness stand out. However, if a person does not watch all the episodes of Firefly and makes the accusation that Jayne only cares about his self, they will not know that he actually does contain a considerate and generous side of him. This brings to me my last point. Maybe it is okay to make judgments based on the information given to us, but should we also think about the possibilities of what makes information seem good or bad? The real life example could simply be one choosing a political party to side with. Seeing negative information about a party could sway you to another and vice versa. When we choose, we tend to see if one aspect outweighs another to make our decisions. If, however, we don’t research all the information of politics, we could be making the wrong assumptions.