MHR 405 Lecture Notes - Rorschach Test, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud
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Social perception & why it is important in the workplace. Perception is how we view the world around us, it adds meaning to the senses we experience throughout our lives and is used as a primary source of how we understand and ourselves and our surroundings. Social perception is the interpretation of information about another person, and refers to the processes in which we use information to formulate impressions of others. There are three major categories of in uence that affect our perception of others; characteristics of ourselves as perceivers, characteristics of the target person we are perceiving, and characteristics of the situation in which the interaction takes place. Familiarity, attitude, mood, and self concept in uence how we perceive others. Familiarity however is not always a good indicator of perceptions as the perceiver might become blind to the negative attributes of the one perceived over time. Attitudes also affect our perceptions, in ways which blind us.
