Chapter 13. Heider

13.1 The Heider/Simmel Experiment

The Heider/Simmel Experiment

Short Description

For a social psychologist like Fritz Heider, it’s important to capture the conscious consideration we use to understand our environment and the people and things in it. One way Heider studied this was by having people watch a short animated film and talk about it. Please review pages 125-6 of your textbook, then watch the film yourself.

Long Description


After you've watched the video, click the link below to answer questions about what you've learned.
Video Assessment Quiz

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1. Why did Heider term his approach “naïve psychology?”

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2. When people watched the film you just saw, how did they tend to describe it?

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3. Heider’s notion that people tend to explain events in terms of specific causes is called:

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