PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Stock Market Crash, Pluralistic Ignorance, Social Cognition
20 Nov 2018
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Social judgements can have serious consequences: joel rifkin"s neighbors though he was nice guy. Mistaking a serial killer for someone who"s gentle and safe to be around = lethal error: studying social cognition. Rifkin story highlights that our judgements are not always flawless: the information available for social cognition. 2. 1 minimal information: inferring personality from physical appearance. Snap judgement: we form impressions upon the briefest glances. Study: showing faces and asking to rate how trustworthy, competent, likable, aggressive or attractive they seemed. Correlation between judgements made at leisure and those made under time pressure was almost as high for participants given a tenth of a second for their ratings as for those given a full second. Todorov et al made participants rate a number of pictures w different faces (neutral expressions on the personality dimensions people most often mention when describing faces. Power: whether confident or bashful, dominant(pronounced jaw) or submissive(baby face).
