PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wrinkle, Inedia, Beek
17 May 2016
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Chapter 4: thinking about the people and situations. Social cognition: study of how people think about the social world and arrive at judgements that help them interpret the past, present, and predict future. Examines how people make decisions, interpret past events, understand current events. The social judgement made will ultimately influence behaviors. Focus on schemas about world vs not just ourselves, not just self. * mistakes reveal a lot about how we make judgements, like showing the limitations of perception and judgement making. A great deal of what we conclude about people based on their faces is determined almost instantaneously. We need a minimal amount of info to make accurate judgements. Don"t judge a book by its cover . Willis & todorov (2006) showed participants large number of faces, they had to judge them as trustworthy, competent, likable, aggressive, attractive. Some given as much time as they wanted, this was the gold standard of comparison.
