PSYCH 2010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12-13,10: Group Cohesiveness, James Marcia, Meyer Friedman
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Social psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals" thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are in uenced by others. Person perception is the process of forming impressions of others. Attractive people tend to be seen as more sociable, friendly, poised, warm, and well adjusted than those who are less attractive. Stereotypes are widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group. Stereotyping is a normal cognitive process that is often automatic and that saves on the time and effort required to get a handle on people individually. The illusory correlation occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more con rmations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen. An ingroup is a group that one longs to and identi es with. An outgroup is a group that one does not belong to or identify with.
