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Chapter 4: Social Perception-The study of how we form impressions of other…
Chapter 4: Social Perception-The study of how we form impressions of other people and draw inferences about them, explaining why behave as they do
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First Impressions
Thin-slicing: drawing meaningful conclusions about someone’s personality/skills based off of extremely brief sample of behavior
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Belief Perseverance: standing by initial conclusions even when subsequently learned information suggests you shouldn’t
Attribution
Internal attribution: deciding that cause of person’s behavior is something about them, i.e. disposition, personality, attitudes, or character
External attribution: deciding something in the situation, not in personality caused behavior
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Two step attribution process: make initial automatic internal attribution, then maybe attempt to adjust attribution by considering situation
Self-serving attributions: people tend to take credit for successes by making internal attributions but blame situation for failures by making external attributions
Belief in a just world: assumption that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get, try to convince self that it won’t happen to them
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