PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Fundamental Attribution Error, Agreeableness, Satisficing
22 Sep 2013
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Social perception the process by which people come to understand one another. The social perceiver comes to know others by relying on indirect cues the elements of social perception. Hard for us as adults to not judge a person by their appearance. 500 bce pythagoras looked into the eyes of perspective students to determine if they were gifted. Hippocrates: used facial features to make diagnoses of life and death. Franz gall: introduced a carnival-like science called phrenology he believed he could assess people"s character by the shape of their skulls. William sheldon (1954): flawed study that there was a link in adult men b/w physique and personality. Physiognomy the art of reading character from faces. People also read traits into faces based on prior information. Adults who have baby-faced features large, round eyes, high eyebrows, round cheeks, a large forehead, smooth skin and a rounded chin tend to be warm, kind, naiive, weak, honest and submissive.
