PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Shy People, Predicable, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Christa Philips

Document Summary

Personality traits are a fundamental part of how we think about each other and ourselves, and writing ins in religion, and philosophy state that people have been judging personality since at least 1000 b. c. This chapter presents 2 parts: considers how and why the assessment of others make your personality and the assessments you make of others (and yourself) are important, addresses the accuracy of these assessments. To what degree and under what circumstances do everyday judgements of personality agree with each other. People perceive shy people as cold and aloof and more negative. When actually they want to interact with people but they are too afraid. This is one example of how the judgements of others are important part of the social world and can have a significant effect on personality and life. Judge(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts of others (cid:272)a(cid:374) also affe(cid:272)t (cid:455)ou through (cid:862)self- fulfilli(cid:374)g prophe(cid:272)ies(cid:863), (cid:373)ore te(cid:272)h(cid:374)i(cid:272)all(cid:455) k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) as expectancy effects.