INTBUS 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Dispositional Attribution, Attribution Bias, Impression Formation
6 Oct 2020
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The process of collecting and interpreting information about another person"s individual characteristics. A dispositional characteristic viewed by social perceivers as integral to the organization of one"s personality. A trait that is not seen as a significant contribution to the organization of one"s overall personality. The tendency of early-presented information to be remembered and recalled better. The adding together of information about a person. An integrated set of ideas held by social perceivers about how different traits tend to be organized within a person. Your everyday assumption you hold about how a person"s personality works. It implies that perceivers actively construct deeper meaning from the information they get about a person"s personality. Tendency to average out a person"s set of individual bits of information on his/her underlying personality. If you have a false proposition and that gets confirmed because the target of your proposition starts acting upon it.
