PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Daniel Goleman, Condom, Scale-Invariant Feature Transform
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Chapter 4: social cognition: thinking about people and situations. The field of social cognition is the study of how people think about the social world and arrive at judgments that help them interpret the past, understand the present, and predict the future. Social stimuli rarely influence people"s behavior directly; they do so indirectly through the way they are interpreted and construed. Sometimes people have very little information on which to base a judgment, but that rarely stops them from making inferences about a person or situation. Consider the impressions we form of complete strangers based on the briefest glances. One of the most interesting things about such impressions is how quickly we make them- the term snap judgment exists for a reason. That question awaits a fully satisfactory answer. Some investigators report moderately high correlations between the judgments made about people based o(cid:374) thei(cid:396) fa(cid:272)ial appea(cid:396)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d those i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals (cid:858)o(cid:449)(cid:374) reports of how approachable, extraverted, and powerful they are.
