Mike is a fan of Thor and is excited to see the new Thor movie based on the trailer and high ratings. However, his brother tells him the movie is not good. Mike ignores this and goes with friends, assuming they will all like orange juice which he buys for them. During the movie, Mike litters but his friends say nothing. After, Mike regrets not listening to his brother, as the movie was disappointing and a waste of time and money.

1. STORY OF MIKE’S
LIFE
Psychology Assignment 2 : Comic strip
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2. Plot
Mike is a Thor fanatic. One day, he was watching the trailer
of the latest Thor movie. He thinks its gonna be enjoyable.
However, his brother who already watched the movie told
him that the movie was not nice. Mike did not believe him as
the previous one was nice and exciting. The rating for it was
quite high too. So, he insisted to watch it with his friends.
Before the movie started, his friends asked him to help them
get some drinks but they didn’t stated what they want. Mike
loved orange juice so he bought orange juice for all of them.
However, not all of them liked it. Some of them liked pepsi,
cola… During the movie, Mike threw a candy wrapper on the
floor. His friends saw it but they kept quiet. After the movie,
Mike realized the movie wasn’t as nice as he expected. He
regretted that only he had listen to his brother, he wouldn’t
have wasted money and time on it.

3. 5 concept inside comic
• Intrinsic Motivation
• Confirmation Bias
• Upward counterfactual
thinking

5. Intrinsic Motivation
• is taking a certain action for the sake of
enjoyment.
• It leads us to be more fully engaged and
leads us to greater pleasure.
• After watching the trailer of the movie,
Thor, he feels excited and thinks that it is
going to be a very good movie according
to the rating. That is why he plans to
watch the movie tomorrow.

7. Confirmation Bias
• Mike’s brother told him that the movie is really bad. After
listening to his brother, he feels annoyed. Mike decided to
ignore his brother statement about the movie. The next
day, he went to watch it with his friends.
• Confirmation bias towards the movie. He wants to watch it
badly no matter how others judge it to be bad.
• Confirmation Bias is a type of cognitive bias and a
systematic error of inductive reasoning. We tend to pay
attention to information that supports our beliefs and
ignore and filter out the information that conflicts our
belief.

9. False Consensus Effect
• His friend told Mike to get them some drinks
from the juice bar without telling him which
specific drink they want.
• And since Mike’s favorite drink is orange juice,
he assumed that his friend will also love orange
juice.
• Therefore, he bought orange juices for his friend
and turn out, all of them hated orange juice.
• False Consensus is shown here because Mike
overestimated his friends who think as alike as
he does.

11. Pluralistic ignorance
• Pluralistic ignorance is a situation which a
majority of group members privately reject
a norm, but incorrectly assume that most of
others accept it, therefore go along with it.
• Mike’s friend saw Mike throwing the candy
wrapper on the theater’s floor. However
they chose to keep quiet because they
assumed that the others accept it, therefore
they go along with it and choose to ignore
his act.

13. Upward Counterfactual
Thinking
• Finally after the movie has ended, Mike
regretted watching the movie. He regretted
listening to his brother advise and should
not watch the movie. If he had listened to
his brother, he will not waste his time and
money.
• Upward counterfactual thinking is to
imagine ONE outcome for an event that has
already occurred and is to worsen one’s
mood.

14. The END