PSY321H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Perception, Subcategorization, Positive Illusions
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Psy321 lecture 9 march 27, 2014. Lecture outline: culture & person perception, culture, face recognition & physical attractiveness, culture & attraction, culture, love & marriage, culture & friendship, culture & group processes, culture and intergroup relations. Person perception: process of forming impressions of others, universal, ability to form reliable impressions, agreement across cultures, single culture studies- within culture agreement tend to form impressions of, ex. Ex/ american vs chinese: were similar to each other. In addition separate studies looked at predictive validity whether or not people are able to predict real world implication or real world behaviours found high levels of agreement. Can predict when candidate could win a vote based on face impression from photos. Seen as na ve: predict real world outcomes whether this candidate will win a election. Culture & person perception: but culture influences the way that we perceive others, ex.
