PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Fundamental Attribution Error, University Of Iowa Shooting, Kaiping
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Person perception sleep deprivation: we don"t notice, brain works overtime to see that you"re not. Gestures that have well-understood meaning within a culture. Different gestures means different things in different cultures. Peace sign in north america is okay, but is offensive in britain. power of behavioural input: thin slices. approach within social psychology focused on the attributional power of brief exposure to others. How we perceive somebody with a very short duration of exposure. Method (kraus & keltner (2009)): recorded people having social interaction. Took 30 second segments from these social interactions and showed to a subsequent set of participants to see how much they can determine about someone"s ses. naive observers accurately detected parents" income, mothers" education, and subjective ses. relative to high ses participants, low ses participants spent less time: grooming, doodling, manipulating objects. provides additional input for a particular behavior when we try to understand people. Schemas: what you expect is what you get.
