PSY 306 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Peer Pressure, Confirmation Bias, Interpersonal Perception
10 Aug 2019
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The study of how people think about the social world and arrive at judgements that help them interpret the past, understand the present, and predict the future. If we want to know how a person will react in a given situation, we must understand how the person interprets that situation. Errors in judgement provide clues about how people think about others and make inferences about them. Mistakes reveal a great amount about how a system works by showing its limitations. A lack of sufficient information rarely stops people from making judgements about a person or situation. Majority of what we conclude about people is based on their faces almost instantly. People judge whether they should be approached or avoided (trust) and whether they"re likely to be a top dog or underdog (dominance) Adults with baby faces are most trustworthy, adults with masculine faces are most dominant.
