PSY100Y5 Lecture 16: Chapter 16
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Social psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by others. Recent study showed that good looking people command more of our attention than less attractive individuals do. People tend to ascribe desirable personality characteristics to those who are good-looking. Attractive people tend to be seen as more sociable, friendly, poised, warm, and well-adjusted than those who are less attractive. Research findings suggest that little correlation exists between attractiveness and personality traits. Extremely attractive people are vastly overrepresented in the entertainment media. Perceptions are swayed by our desire to bond with attractive people. People have a surprisingly strong tendency to view good-looking individuals as more competent than less attractive individuals. Observers are also quick to draw inferences about people based on how they move, talk, and gesture- that is, their style of nonverbal expressions. These inferences tend to be fairly accurate.
