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Lecture 4 Social Perception Flashcards

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Social Perception

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Forming impressions of other people
- What people are like
- Make inferences about them
– How we explain their behavior

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First Impression

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  • Facial Structure: warmth or competence
  • Behavior
  • Social information: Room tidiness
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Schema & First Impression

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  • Primacy effect
  • Halo effect
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Primacy effect in Social Perception

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The first description of traits have more impact than later description
- e.g. intelligent - stubborn

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Halo effect

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A positive impression of someone, we presume that the person has many other good qualities
- e.g. capable people are also seen as powerful and dominant

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Belief Perseverance

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  • Tendency to stand by and commit to our INITIAL conclusions
  • Even when subsequently learned information suggests we were WRONG
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Attribution Theory

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The study of how human explain other’s behavior – including their own behavior

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People as Naïve Scientists

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Human try to understand others by piecing together available information to arrive at a reasonable explanation or cause

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Internal Attribution

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Personality trait, An attitude, or the person’s character.

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External Attribution

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  • The situation a person is in.
  • The assumption is that other people would behave similarly in that situation.
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What is the consequences of making external attribution?

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  • Our impression of the person would not change
  • We will respond differently now
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What is the consequence of making internal attribution?

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  • A more negative impression of the person
  • We will treat the person differently in the future
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Kelly’s Covariation Model

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Humans decide whether external or internal attribution based on time, place, and people.
- Consensus
- Distinctiveness
- Consistency

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Consensus

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PEOPLE
How others would behave in the same situation

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Distinctiveness

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PLACE
How the same person would behave
in the different situation

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Consistency

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TIME
How the same people would behave in similar situation across time

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Criticism of Kelly’s Covariation Model

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  • Consensus information is used less frequently than Kelley’s theory predicted
  • Often lack information about 1 or more dimensions
  • Limited information is used
  • Absent information dimensions are guessed
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Errors in Attribution

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  1. Fundamental Attribution Error
  2. Perceptual Salience
  3. Two-step Attribution Process
  4. Self-serving Attributions
  5. The Bias Blindspot
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Fundamental Attribution Error

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Naïve psychologists think more like personality psychologists
- Inferring a correspondence between people’s behavior and their personality
- Even when there are powerful situational explanations

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Perceptual Salience

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When an object stands out and captures our attention
- Situational causes are often invisible or nearly invisible to us

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What does “people are perceptually prominent” mean?

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Human attention naturally gravitates toward people in our environment
- Inferring that people have a large role

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Who have better impact on audiences: the one they can see or the other one who the can’t?

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The one they could see better had a greater impact on the conversation

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Two-step Attribution Process

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  1. Automatic: internal attribution
  2. Controlled: external attribution
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Why do people fail to use the controlled process?

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  1. Distraction
  2. Lack of Motivation
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Criticisms of the Two-step Attribution Process

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Cultural difference: Collectivists seem
to involve situations or external attribution more

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Self-serving Attributions

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  1. Making internal attributions that give themselves credit for their successes
  2. Making external attributions that blame situations or other people
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What is the common cause of the self-serving attributions?

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  • Self-esteem being threatened
  • Lack of information
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Criticisms of the Self-serving Attributions

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  1. They are less common in East Asia than in the West
  2. They do not necessarily credit people individually but credits the entire team for their success
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Belief in a Just World

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Belief that good things happen to good people, while bad things happen to people who do bad things

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Why do people choose to believe in a just world

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  • It’s DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND and come to terms with tragic events even when it happens to others
  • It’s allows us to relax and feel ASSURED that bad things won’t happen to us because we won’t be that careless
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What are the consequence of the belief in a just world

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Victim Blaming

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The Bias Blindspot

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Bing unaware that we are just as likely to be biased as anyone else

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