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| 1967 || || {{w|Risk compensation}} || {{w|Risk compensation}}. In Sweden, following [[w:Dagen H|the change from driving on the left to driving on the right]] there is a drop in crashes and fatalities, which is linked to the increased apparent risk. The number of motor insurance claims going down by 40%, returning to normal over the next six weeks.<ref>{{cite book|title=Risk and Freedom: Record of Road Safety Regulation|first=John |last=Adams|publisher=Brefi Press|year=1985|isbn=9780948537059}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|quote=On the day of the change, only 150 minor accidents were reported. Traffic accidents over the next few months went down. ... By 1969, however, accidents were back at normal levels|title=Dagen H: The day Sweden switched sides of the road|work=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/dagen-h-the-day-sweden-switched-sides-of-the-road-photo/2012/02/17/gIQAOwFVKR_blog.html|first=Elizabeth|last=Flock|date=2012-02-17}}</ref> Fatality levels would take two years to return to normal.<ref>"On September 4 there were 125 reported traffic accidents as opposed to 130-196 from the previous Mondays. No traffic fatalities were linked to the switch. In fact, fatalities dropped for two years, possibly because drivers were more vigilant after the switch." Sweden finally began driving on the right side of the road in 1967 ''The Examiner'' Sept 2, 2009</ref> || "{{w|Risk compensation}} postulates that humans have a built-in level of acceptable risk-taking and that our behaviour adjusts to this level in a homeostatic manner".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mok |first1=D |last2=Gore |first2=G |last3=Hagel |first3=B |last4=Mok |first4=E |last5=Magdalinos |first5=H |last6=Pless |first6=B |title=Risk compensation in children’s activities: A pilot study |doi=10.1093/pch/9.5.327 |pmid=19657519 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2721187/ |pmc=2721187}}</ref>
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| 1967 || || || "Chapman (1967) described a bias in the judgment of the frequency with which two events co-occur. This demonstration showed that the [[co-occurrence]] of paired stimuli resulted in participants overestimating the frequency of the pairings." ""{{w|Illusory correlation}}" was originally coined by Chapman and Chapman (1967) to describe people's tendencies to overestimate relationships between two groups when distinctive and unusual information is presented.<ref name="Chapman1967">{{cite journal|last1=Chapman|first1=L|title=Illusory correlation in observational report|journal=Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior|volume=6|issue=1|year=1967|pages=151–155|doi=10.1016/S0022-5371(67)80066-5}}</ref>"<ref>{{cite journal|last=Chapman|first=L.J|title=Illusory correlation in observational report|journal=Journal of Verbal Learning|year=1967|volume=6|pages=151–155|doi=10.1016/s0022-5371(67)80066-5}}</ref> ||An {{w|illusory correlation}} occurs when a person perceives a relationship between two variables that are not in fact correlated.<ref>{{cite web |title=Illusory Correlation |url=http://psychology.iresearchnet.com/social-psychology/decision-making/illusory-correlation/ |website=psychology.iresearchnet.com |accessdate=17 July 2020}}</ref>
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| 1967 || Social bias || {{w|Fundamental attribution error}} || {{w|Edward E. Jones}} and Victor Harris conduct a classic experiment<ref name="JonesHarris67">{{cite journal|last=Jones|first=E. E.|last2=Harris|first2=V. A.|year=1967|title=The attribution of attitudes|journal=Journal of Experimental Social Psychology|volume=3|issue=1|pages=1–24|doi=10.1016/0022-1031(67)90034-0}}</ref> that would later give rise to the phrase {{w|Fundamental attribution error}}, coined by {{w|Lee Ross}}<ref>{{cite book|title=Advances in experimental social psychology|last=Ross|first=L.|publisher=Academic Press|year=1977|isbn=978-0-12-015210-0|editor-last=Berkowitz|editor-first=L.|volume=10|location=New York|pages=173–220|chapter=The intuitive psychologist and his shortcomings: Distortions in the attribution process}}</ref> || "is the tendency for people to over-emphasize dispositional, or personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in others while under-emphasizing situational explanations".<ref>{{cite web |title=Fundamental Attribution Error |url=https://www.simplypsychology.org/fundamental-attribution.html |website=simplypsychology.org |accessdate=7 May 2020}}</ref>
