Person Perception Flashcards
What is in a Person‘s Face?
- Identity & Familiarity
- Category information (e. g., attractiveness, age, gender)
- Nonverbal Communication (e. g., emotion, attitudes, attention)
What is the Attractiveness Bias
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“What-is-beautiful-is-good-stereotype“
- people spontaneously associate many desirable characteristics to attractive faces
How accurate is the person construal from faces?
has a low accuracy
Why is the Person Construal from Faces important to look at?
- high social consensus
- can be highly influential
- may cause confirmative behaviour
Why does Person Construal from Faces have such an impact?
- Evolutionary advantage?
- Overgeneralization hypothesis
- Overgeneralization hypothesis
What your stuff (room, desk, playlist, dog) says about you (Gosling, 2002)
Is this valid?
Yes
- High perceiver consistency
- Above-chance accuracy
- Reliance on valid cues (behavioral residuals)
Which two kinds of knowledge do we process with regards to interpreting people?
- Available Knowledge (stored associations)
- Accessible Knowledge (activated associations)
In what two points can you differentiate Accessible Knowledge?
How do we process social information?
Name the two kinds of processing
- Superficial Processing
- Systematic Processing
Define Superficial Processing
- No or minimal effort, quick
- based on single/few attributes
- depends on accessibility
- stable judgments (conservatism)
Define Systematic Processing
- High motivation & effort, slow
- integration of multiple attributes
- depends on accessibility
- table judgments (conservatism)
What is the the Halo effect (Asch, 1946; Lorge, 1936)?
central features shape interpretation of other information
What is the the Primacy effect (Asch, 1946)?
early information shapes interpretation of later information
What have Heider-Simmel Demonstration (1944) discovered for impressions of people on us?
Participants spontaneously described the movements of triangles and circles in terms of human actions, feelings, and emotions
What are Dispositions?
person characteristics with relative temporal and situational stability (traits)