SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Victim Blaming, Dependent And Independent Variables, Santa Barbara City College
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The role of perceptual salience in the correspondence bias. Perceptual salience - information that is the focus of people"s attention. People tend to overestimate the causal role of perceptually salient information. We try to explain someone"s behavior, our focus of attention is usually on the person, not on the surrounding situation. People, not the situation, have perceptual salience for us people are what our eyes and ears notice. Information that is the focus of people"s attention; people tend to overestimate the causal role of perceptually salient information. Example: two male students engaged in convo (both were accomplices) 2 observers sat behind actor a (could see b only) 2 sat in middle (could see both actors) 2 observers sat behind actor b (could see a only) When asked who took the lead: people thought that the actor they could see the best had the most impact on the conversation, this is effect of perceptual salience.
