SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Trait Theory, Centrality, Covariance
13 Feb 2018
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A set of assumptions of what personality traits go together - behaviour, attributes and personality. (the inference of co-occurrence of personality traits based on another personality trait): ex. Being gifted (very smart) is sometimes associated with also not having great social skills or having bad marks being associated with being deviant: halo effect - an impression. The few personality traits you know one has, you add more: physical attractiveness - think of them as charming, sweet. Thinking someone looks clean - this is poor judgement because they may look clean but can also have a disease for ex. Process of creating a coherent picture of someone based on many sources of. Certain traits ranking high in our perception of a person. Also impacts how we perceive the other traits associated with the individual: self-ful lling prophecy, when we act towards someone based on our impression of them and they re ect that impression back to us.
