Lecture 4 Perceiving Persons
Person perception The process by which people come to understand on another
Thin Slicing By small amount of information to predict behaviors. Extraverts are better than introverts Women are better than men Motivation
How Do We Perceive Others? - Evolutionary Theories: There’s revolutionary value in rapid identifying: potential threats; possible partners; competent leaders. - We are hardwired to rapidly understand social cues.

Nonverbal Cues:
The way in which people communicate, intentionally or unintentionally, without words. Emotion; Attitudes and intentions; Personality traits. -Types of Nonverbal Behavior: Body Language; Eye contact or gaze Physical touch Cultural differences

Attributions - Attribution theory - Personal/Dispositional Attribution: Behavior is caused by internal characteristics, such as ability, personality, mood or effort. - Situational/Contextual Attribution: Behavior is caused by external factors, such as a task, other people of luck. - Jones’s Correspondent Interference Theory: people try to infer from an action whether the act corresponds to an enduring personal trait of the actor. Choice; Expectedness; Effects; - Covariation principle: In order for sth to be the cause of a behavior, it must be present when the behavior occurs and absent when it does not.

- Counterfactual thinking: a tendency to imagine alternative outcomes that might have occurred but did not. - Fundamental Attribution Error: The tendency to focus on the role of personal causes and underestimate the impact of situations on behavior. - Actor-Observer Bias: The tendency