PSY220H1 Lecture 10: Interpersonal Relationships
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Psy220 lecture 10: interpersonal relationships: liking, loving, & connecting part i. Durably reducing transphobia: a field experiment on door-to-door canvassing (brockman. We are able to form impressions of other people almost instantly sometimes with surprising accuracy, and sometimes not. Participants exposed to unfamiliar pairs of faces for 1 second. Faces were of actual candidates in previous house and senate elections. Given 1 second to rate on competency and a number of other traits (intelligence, honesty, etc) Ratings of competence predicted actual election outcomes. Candidates rated as more competent were elected 70% of the time. If people are asked to think carefully" and make good judgements", the correlation between competency and ratings and election outcomes disappears. Static cues: something you do not have control over. Wider facial structure perceived as more competent than thinner facial structure. Upturned eyebrows and upward curving mouth perceived as more. Four overgeneralization effects (e. g. , zebrowitz, 2011, 2017)
