The Perception Of People

Author : Perry R. Hinton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317481300

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The Perception of People by Perry R. Hinton Pdf

What are other people like? How do we decide if someone is friendly, honest or clever? What assumptions do we develop about them and what explanations do we give for their behaviour? The Perception of People examines key topics in psychology to explore how we make sense of other people (and ourselves). Do our decisions result from careful consideration and a desire to produce an accurate perception? Or do we jump to conclusions in our judgements and rely on expectations and stereotypes? To answer these questions the book examines models of person perception and provides an up-to-date and detailed account of the central psychological research in this area, focusing in particular on the social cognitive approach. It also considers and reflects on the involvement of culture in cognition, and includes coverage of relevant research in culture and language that influence the way we think and speak about others. As well as providing a valuable text in social psychology, The Perception of People also offers a direction for the integration of ideas from cognitive and social psychology with those of cultural psychology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and social history. Clear explanation of modern research is placed in historical and cultural context to provide a fuller understanding of how psychologists have worked to understand how people interpret the world around them and make sense of the people within it. Ideal reading for students of social psychology, this engaging text will also be useful in subject areas such as communication studies and media studies, where the perception of people is highly relevant.

Author : Mark Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032003952

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Issues in Person Perception by Mark Cook Pdf

Life becomes difficult for the judges of others when they are presented with a number of facts about someone which all point in different directions, or which point in no direction at all. Originally published in 1984, this volume brings together research on four major issues involved in judging people: the relationship between person perception and personality; inference from multiple cues; methodology of measuring accuracy of perception; and selection for employment. These issues are not only of increasing importance in the study of psychology today, they are also of central relevance to social and business conduct. This edited collection will be a valuable resource for the student of either.

Author : Hans-Werner Bierhoff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783642741302

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Person Perception and Attribution by Hans-Werner Bierhoff Pdf

Person perception is of great importance in everyday life and human science. Judgment of other people's characteristics and intentions is important for suc cessfully planning actions within a social environment. Questions about the formation of impressions and causal attributions are central to social psychology and the study of diagnostic judgment formation. The field of per son perception deals with questions of how impression formation proceeds, what characteristics and intentions are attributed to other people, and how preformed schemata and stereotypes influence people's first impressions. Research on person perception developed rapidly after the Second World War. In the 1950s the precision and accuracy of person perception received special interest, but the problems concerning whether an individual's assessment of another personality is exact or not could not be solved. Another approach, which began in the 1940s and was derived from the Gestalt psychological tradi tion, dealt with impression formation based on selected social cues. This ap proach, which proved to be very useful, had considerable influence on both the research methods and the theoretical orientation of the research work. On the one hand, by using a combination of individual cues (like physical characteris tics) researchers tried to ascertain how an impression of a person was formed. On the other hand, the Gestalt psychological orientation led to an interest in the process of person perception, which in the last 10 years has concentrated on questions concerning information reception and processing.

Author : Steven J. Stroessner,Jeffrey W. Sherman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317562047

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Social Perception from Individuals to Groups by Steven J. Stroessner,Jeffrey W. Sherman Pdf

This volume focuses on social perception, the processing of information about people. This issue has always been central to social psychology, but this book brings together literatures that in large part have been separated by the nature of the social target that is involved. Historically, research on person perception developed quite independently from research involving perceptions of groups. Whereas the former research generally focused on the cognitive processes involved in forming impressions of individuals, research on group perception examined the content of stereotypes and the conditions under which they are used in social judgment. There was been little overlap in the theories and methods of these subfields, and different researchers were central in each. The chapters in this book highlight research and theorizing about social perception, exploring the processes involved in social perception from persons to groups. Some chapters describe work that was originally developed in person perception but is being extended to understanding groups. Other chapters illustrate how some processes studied in the domain of stereotyping also affect perceptions of individual persons. Finally, other chapters focus on variables that affect perceptions and judgments of both individuals and groups, proving opportunities for greater recognition of the common set of factors that are central to all types of social perception. This groundbreaking book highlights the research contributions of David L. Hamilton, whose research has played a central role in uniting these previously independent areas of research. It provides essential reading for upper-level courses on social cognition or social perception and could also serve as an auxiliary text in courses on interpersonal perception/relations and courses on stereotyping/intergroup relations.

Author : Peter Bryan Warr,Christopher Knapper
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Perception
ISBN : UCSC:32106001009361

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The Perception of People and Events by Peter Bryan Warr,Christopher Knapper Pdf

Author : Kerri Johnson,Maggie Shiffrar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780195393705

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People Watching by Kerri Johnson,Maggie Shiffrar Pdf

The scientific study of the human body has burgeoned in recent years, and scholars from wide-ranging disciplines are now seeking to understand just how much information can be conveyed by the human body in motion. This volume sheds light on the potency of the human body to inform our most basic perceptions of one another.

Author : Perry R. Hinton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317481317

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The Perception of People by Perry R. Hinton Pdf

What are other people like? How do we decide if someone is friendly, honest or clever? What assumptions do we develop about them and what explanations do we give for their behaviour? The Perception of People examines key topics in psychology to explore how we make sense of other people (and ourselves). Do our decisions result from careful consideration and a desire to produce an accurate perception? Or do we jump to conclusions in our judgements and rely on expectations and stereotypes? To answer these questions the book examines models of person perception and provides an up-to-date and detailed account of the central psychological research in this area, focusing in particular on the social cognitive approach. It also considers and reflects on the involvement of culture in cognition, and includes coverage of relevant research in culture and language that influence the way we think and speak about others. As well as providing a valuable text in social psychology, The Perception of People also offers a direction for the integration of ideas from cognitive and social psychology with those of cultural psychology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and social history. Clear explanation of modern research is placed in historical and cultural context to provide a fuller understanding of how psychologists have worked to understand how people interpret the world around them and make sense of the people within it. Ideal reading for students of social psychology, this engaging text will also be useful in subject areas such as communication studies and media studies, where the perception of people is highly relevant.

Author : Yueh-Ting Lee,Clark R. McCauley,Juris G. Draguns
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134808229

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Personality and Person Perception Across Cultures by Yueh-Ting Lee,Clark R. McCauley,Juris G. Draguns Pdf

Neither human nature nor personality can be independent of culture. Human beings share certain social norms or rules within their cultural groups. Over 2000 years ago, Aristotle held that man is by nature a social animal. Similarly, Xun Kuang (298-238 B.C.), a Chinese philosopher, pointed out that humans in social groups can not function without shared guidance or rules. This book is designed to provide readers with a perspective on how people are different from, and similar to, each other --both within and across cultures. One of its goals is to offer a practical guide for people preparing to interact with those whose cultural background is different from their own.

Author : Susan Bredlau
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438471730

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The Other in Perception by Susan Bredlau Pdf

Demonstrates the unique, pervasive, and overwhelmingly important role of other people within our lived experience. Drawing on the original phenomenological work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Simone de Beauvoir, and John Russon, as well as recent research in child psychology, The Other in Perception argues for perception’s inherently existential significance: we always perceive a world and not just objective facts. The world is the rich domain of our personal and interpersonal lives, and central to this world is the role of other people. We are “paired” with others such that our perception is really the enactment of a coinhabiting of a shared world. These relations with others shape the very way in which we perceive our world. Susan Bredlau explores two uniquely formative domains in which our pairing relations with others are particularly critical: childhood development and sexuality. It is through formative childhood experience that the essential, background structures of our world are instituted, which has important consequences for our developed perceptual life. Sexuality is an analogous domain of formative intersubjective experience. Taken as a whole, Bredlau demonstrates the unique, pervasive, and overwhelmingly important role of other people within our lived experience. Susan Bredlau is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.

Author : Dennis Proffitt,Drake Baer
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781250219121

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Perception by Dennis Proffitt,Drake Baer Pdf

A groundbreaking popular psychology book that explores the deep connection between our body and our brain. Over decades of study, University of Virginia psychologist Dennis Proffitt has shown that we are each living our own personal version of Gulliver’s Travels, where the size and shape of the things we see are scaled to the size of our bodies, and our ability to interact with them. Stairs look less steep as dieters lose weight, baseballs grow bigger the better players hit, hills look less daunting if you’re standing next to a close friend, and learning happens faster when you can talk with your hands. Written with journalist Drake Baer, Perception marries academic rigor with mainstream accessibility. The research presented and the personalities profiled will show what it means to not only have, but be, your unique human body. The positive ramifications of viewing ourselves from this embodied perspective include greater athletic, academic, and professional achievement, more nourishing relationships, and greater personal well-being. The better we can understand what our bodies are—what they excel at, what they need, what they must avoid—the better we can live our lives.

Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000504668

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The Perception of the Environment by Tim Ingold Pdf

In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. They are thus as much biological as cultural. To account for the generation of skills we have therefore to understand the dynamics of development. And this in turn calls for an ecological approach that situates practitioners in the context of an active engagement with the constituents of their surroundings. The twenty-three essays comprising this book focus in turn on the procurement of livelihood, on what it means to ‘dwell’, and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology in a way that has never been attempted before. The book is set to revolutionise the way we think about what is ‘biological’ and ‘cultural’ in humans, about evolution and history, and indeed about what it means for human beings – at once organisms and persons – to inhabit an environment. The Perception of the Environment will be essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers. This edition includes a new Preface by the author.

Author : Albert H. Hastorf,David J. Schneider,Judith Polefka
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Social perception
ISBN : UCAL:B4098430

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Person Perception by Albert H. Hastorf,David J. Schneider,Judith Polefka Pdf

Author : KC Adams,Cathy Mattes
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781553797883

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Perception by KC Adams,Cathy Mattes Pdf

Social action art in book form, Perception: A Photo Series encourages readers to look, and then look again. Tired of reading negative and disparaging remarks directed at Indigenous people of Winnipeg in the press and social media, artist KC Adams created a photo series that presented another perspective. Called “Perception Photo Series,” it confronted common stereotypes of First Nation, Inuit and Métis people to illustrate a more contemporary truthful story. First appearing on billboards, in storefronts, in bus shelters, and projected onto Winnipeg’s downtown buildings, Adam’s stunning photographs now appear in the book, Perception: A Photo Series. Meant to challenge the culture of apathy and willful ignorance about Indigenous issues, Adams hopes to unite readers in the fight against prejudice of all kinds. Perception is one title in The Debwe Series.

Author : Roberta Chinsky Matuson
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781398601314

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Can We Talk? by Roberta Chinsky Matuson Pdf

WINNER: Independent Press Award 2022 - Career Are you avoiding an uncomfortable conversation at work? If you're an executive or a team leader, strengthening your organization's ability to have difficult conversations is necessary and worth the discomfort. The key to successful dialogue starts and ends with changing the conversation. Recognizing that it takes two people to engage in meaningful outcomes, Can We Talk? outlines what each contributor needs to do to achieve the best possible result. Using examples from everyday work situations, this book offers guidance on how to create the right conditions for a meaningful discussion. The author identifies the seven key principles that enable both parties to gain a deeper understanding of what the other person may be thinking and will help establish their point of view more clearly: confidence, clarity, compassion, curiosity, compromise, credibility, courage. Can We Talk? includes examples and advice from those who have been there and thrived, as well as lessons learned from conversation failures and example scripts of productive conversations. Readers will learn how to prepare, start and manage the potentially challenging exchange of words that typically occur at work, and come away with an understanding that for any conversation to take place, both parties must be engaged.

Author : Judith A. Hall,Marianne Schmid Mast,Tessa V. West
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107101517

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The Social Psychology of Perceiving Others Accurately by Judith A. Hall,Marianne Schmid Mast,Tessa V. West Pdf

This comprehensive overview presents cutting-edge research on the fast-expanding field of interpersonal perception.