ADMS 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychopathy, Fundamental Attribution Error, Machiavellianism
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Perception is the process by which individuals organize and interpret their impressions to give me. The two most important things that determine how you see things are your interests and experie. Similarity: predisposition to look at a group of people in the same way. The situation: we perceive things differently in different situations. Contrast effects: e. g being next after a really smart person at a job interview. Projection: attributing ones own characteristics to other people. Self fulfilling prophecy - a concept that proposes a person will behave in ways consistent with how. Personality tions meaning to their environment. erience. how he or she is perceived by others. Heredity: the genes you inherit from your parents. Certain jobs demand a certain type of personality. Conscientiousness: are the best performers and hardworking people. The dark triad: a group of negative personality traits. Narcissism: think they are better than everyone else. They think they are better leaders than they actually are.