PSYB10H3 Chapter 4: Social Cognition: Thinking about People and Situations
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Chapter 4 - social cognition: thinking about people and situations. We often make inaccurate judgements such as seeing a serial killer as safe and gentle . People make surprisingly similar assumptions based on appearance regardless of time constraints. They also tend to be on two different axises. Therefore - to be approached or not to be approached, top dog or underdog. Trustworthy and non dom faces look more like baby faces. They are judged to be relatively weak, naive, and submissive, whereas adults with small eyes, a small forehead, and an angular, prominent chin tend to be judged as strong, competent, and dominant. Snap judgements are reasonably accurate when exposed to a brief moment in other people"s behavior. Pluralistic ignorance is particularly common in situations that value toughness, gang members private confess objections to brutal initiation procedures but afraid to say in a group due to fear of ridicule.
