Think about a time when you made a snap judgment about another person. How did your expectations about people influence your judgment of this person? Looking back on this, to what extent do you think was that judgment fair or unfair? What role did biases or heuristics play in this?

Describe times when you have engaged in downward and upward social comparisons and the effects these comparisons had on your self-esteem. To what extent do your experiences fit with the research evidence?

Describe a time when you behaved in a way that was inconsistent with your self-concept and which led you to experience cognitive dissonance. How does someone reduce the dissonance?