PSYCH238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Signalling Theory, Shani, Helping Behavior

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH238
• Professor: Doug Brown

Document Summary

Perceptual shortcuts and errors in judgment at work: primacy & recency effects. Dougherty et al. , interviewers (coporate interviewers builds impressions of job applicants with their appearance and their test scores: projection. Attributing one"s own thoughts or characteristics to other people. We think other people think what we think: similar-to-me effect. Tendency for rater to give more favourable evaluations to people who are similar to him/her in terms of background or attitudes. If someone has any time of similarity as you, you tend to evaluate them more positively, doesn"t matter what it is like same city. : halo effect. Rater"s tendency to let rating on one trait colour ratings on unrelated traits. Since they have one positive feature about them you may assume that they have other positive features. Stereotyping: a perceptual tendency to generalize about people based on a social category that they belong to, and to ignore variations among individuals within this category.