PSYC35H3 Lecture 5: LECTURE 5 C35 (detailed) (recording)
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Personality dynamics ; the dynamics that occur btw individuals, the processes/ mechanisms that equip us for inferring the traits that other people have. Today we"ll be talking about the direct face to face processes. When we talk about person perception or personality perception we should begin by asking whether or not the topic is worthy of consideration in its own right . There are several reasons of why person perception should be considered separately from object perception. There are at least 4 ways in which person perception is different from object perception: Person perception is a reciprocal process when we are perceiving inanimate objects, the object is not perceiving us. This is not the case when people are perceiving people. When you are perceiving someone, that person is perceiving you. In other words, person perception is a transactional process, it"s not unidirectional. When people are perceiving each other, it is a reciprocal fashion.
