PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Eye Contact, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO241
• Professor: Blaine Mullins

Document Summary

Raw data: people situation and behaviours => affect our social judgment. How our impressions can subtly create a distorted picture of reality. We are both receiver and target of other people"s judgment: elements of social perception: people. We are trained not to do first impression judgment, but we unconsciously do it all the time. Willis & todorov (2006) experiment: a group of college students to judge strangers based on their facial features it con takes a fraction of a second to judge other people and make an impression. Ex: long lashes, up-curve mouth, round => kindness: baby faces: Adults have baby features (cuteness) --> na ve, kind, weak, more helpless suggested to be a pre-school teacher. Adults have mature features stronger, experienced, not kind, - working at a bank: elements of social perception: situations. Pryor & merluzzi (1985) first date script: listing events that can happen in a first date.