PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: International Tropical Timber Organization, Informa, Beek
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Chapter 4: social cognition thinking about people and situations. Stories like this makes it clear that social judgements can have serious consequences, where mistaking a serial killer to be someone who is gentle and safe to be around with. Social cognition the sources of errors in judgement about the social world. Information is an important aspect of social cognition. Sometimes information is very little, misleading, or none at all so for people to base assessments on can be quite complicated. Minimal information inferring personality form physical appearance. Minimal information does not stop a person from making judgements about an individual or situation: e. g. we make impressions of another complete stranger based on glancing at their physical appearances or actions. Snap judgement how quickly one can make an impression. To either approach or avoid dimension 1 or where they stand in perms of power or hierarchy which is dimension 2.
