PSYC 473 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Collectivism, Impression Formation, Hispanic
21 Feb 2013
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3 factors drive perception of others: o o: situation. Specifically = specific context one is in: self. Motives, goals, expectancies, prior information, values o: other person"s behaviour. Power of the situation alone is often strong enough to determine behaviour of others this is obvious since in many situations a wide array of people behave identically. Behaviour under free choice conditions is more diagnostic than behaviour under constraint . Correspondent inference should decrease as the power of the situation increases. Logic = if writers weren"t free to choose their actions, then perceivers shouldn"t be forming correspondent inferences. Correspondence should be high not only when perceived choice is high, but also when the prior probability of the act"s occurring is low: particpants recorded their estimates of writer"s true opinions on the subject. Were told the writer had choice. Were told the topic was assigned by an instructor: what they measured was the pro-castroness of the target persons" attitude.
