PSYC 215 Study Guide - Stereotype, Interpersonal Attraction, Richard Petty
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Often, individiuals, selectively recall facts that fit with their schemas and stereotypes: an evolutionary perspective on bias in person perception, evolutionary psychologists argue that many biases in person perception were adaptive in our ancestral past, for example, automatically categorizing others may reflect the primitive need to quickly separate friend from foe. They assert that humans are programmed by evolution to immediately classify people as members of an in group a group that belongs to and identifies with, or as members of an out group a group that one does not belong or identify with: further evidence by krebs and denton show ingroup members tend to be viewed in favourable light, whereas outgroup members tend to be viewed in terms of various negative stereotypes. for the subjectivity of social perception is shown in the spotlight effect, or the tendency to assume that the social spotlight shines more brightly on them than it actually does.
