社会心理学是常识吗？

IS SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SIMPLY COMMON SENSE?

社会心理学面对的两个对立的批判
-trivial 微不足道，众所周知
-dangerous

Social psychology faces two contradictory criticisms: first, that it is trivial because it documents the obvious; second, that it is dangerous because its findings could be used to manipulate people.

I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon

事后诸葛

“It is easy to be wise after the event.”

相比去赞美正确的决策，人们更愿意去责怪错误的选择。
应该放下自大，学习谦卑；不彰显自己，而要包容他人的失策。

The I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon can have unfortunate consequences. It is conducive to arrogance—an overestimation of our own intellectual powers. Moreover, because outcomes seem as if they should have been foreseeable, we are more likely to blame decision makers for what are in retrospect “obvious” bad choices than to praise them for good choices, which also seem “obvious.

“Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.”

生活总是，回头才明白，然后我们只能迈步向前。
We learn from the past, we move on forward.
圣经中说：Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead。
生活总要向前看，努力当下