PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Physical Attractiveness, Fritz Heider
4 Oct 2020
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Implicit personality theory: a type of schema people use to group various kinds of personality traits together; for example, many people believe that if someone is kind, he or she is generous as well. Ex. if someone is kind, our implicit personality theory tells us that he/she is probably also generous; similarly, we assume that a stingy person is also irritable. Relying on just implicit personality theories can also lead us astray. Ubc researchers found that if someone was shy, people tended to assume that the person was also unintelligent - an assumption that simply was not true. A team of researchers in the us found that university students relied on implicit personality theories to determine whether they should use condoms in sexual situation. Ex. they would assume they don"t have stds if they liked them, or would judge them by their age/how they dressed/whether they were from a big or small town culture and implicit.
