PSY327H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Extraversion And Introversion, Survey Data Collection, Social Comparison Theory
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The process of how we perceive and make judgements about our social world. 1/25th of a second to judge emotional expressions, ethnicity, gender. 1/10th of a second to judge attractiveness, likability, trustworthiness. 5 seconds to judge personality (e. g. , intelligence, extraversion) We tend to have existing beliefs about people to those groups. We use facial cues to make inferences about people"s personalities and traits. Other traits: political preferences, leadership, narcissism, social class . They influence the quality of relationships that we eventually develop. Their impressions of a student"s personality predicted their feelings about each other. We remember initial information better than later information. Confirmation bias: we seek and interpret information to confirm our existing beliefs. Confidence in our initial impressions increases over time as a result of confirmation bias. First impressions work because of the primacy effect. Defined as: tendency for first information we receive about others to carry special weight.
