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Teaching Psychology - How to Surprise Yourself
To teach students any psychology they did not know before, you must surprise them. But which surprise will do? Nisbit and borgida found that when they presented their students with a surprising statistical fact, the students managed to learn nothing at all. When the students were surprised by individual cases, two nice people who had not helped, they immediately made the generalization - helping is more difficult than they thought.