PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Real News, Wwho, Telling Stories
10 Dec 2015
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Personality assessment ii: personality judgment in daily life. Judgments other people make if your personality reflect a significant part of your social world; their importance goes beyond their value as accurate, or inaccurate, descriptions. Your reputation among those who know you matters because it greatly affects both opportunities and expectancies. For example shy people seem to be cold and aloof, when really they just do not know how to handle social situations; affects lives of shy people. Judgments of others can also affect you through self fulfilling prophecies" expectancy effects. These effects can affect both intellectual performance and social behaviour. Researchers have proposed at least 4 different theoretical models of expectancy effects: the one that has the most support is a 4-factor theory proposed by. According to this theory, high expectancy students perform better because their teachers treat them differently in 4 ways. Rosenthal: climate teachers projecting warmer emotional attitude toward student they expect to do well.
