Person perception Flashcards
What is person perception?
The process of learning about other people
Why is person perception unique
It is associated with actiavation in the prefrontal cortex, this does not happen for objects (Mason & McCrae, 2007)
What is dehumanisation
The finding that when processing some information about certain social groups our prefrontal cortex does not activate
What has Harris and Fiske (2006; 2007) demonstrated?
That frontal cortex activation does not occur when processing information about homeless people - indicating that dehumanise them
this is only when we see homelessness as unchangable (Krendyl et al., 2012)
When do we process information quicker?
When we are interaction
Hood & McCrae (2007)
- when someone looks at use we process informaiton about their features quicker than when they are not
What is impression management
When we alter our self-presentation so that we look favourable to others
How quickly do we form first impressions?
Bar et al (2006)
- based on facial appearnace within 100milliseconds
When do we form our first impressions?
Cogsdil et al (2014)
- children as young as 3 can form impressions based on facial appearance
Are our impressions fast and accurate
Yes
Ambady & Rosenthal (1993)
- impresssions based on a 10 second clip of a lecture and those after a full semester highly correlated
How accurate are our 1st impressions
can be very accurate
Rule et al (2008)
- can accurately determine ones sexual orientation based on an image of their face
even when we are not confident of our actions
Rule & Ambady (2010)
- also accurate at determining ones political orientation from images of their face
How do initial impressions have a lasting impact?
Primacy effect
- the 1st impressions we form impact how we interpret information later on
Belief perseverance
- stick with our original judgement even when new information points elsewhere
What do we notice first?
Threat and trustworthiness
negative information
