Social perception is the study of how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people, identifying and using social cues to judge social roles, rules, relationships, context and the characteristics of others. People pick up information about others' feelings and emotions from physical appearance and from verbal and non-verbal communication, such as facial expressions, tone of voice, hand gestures and body position; seeing someone roll their eyes at what one has just said, for example, is commonly understood as a sign of disagreement. The process is generally described as having four main components: observation, attribution, integration and confirmation.
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Core ClaimSocial perception is the study of how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people. 1 Classification
Type of PhenomenonSocial or Interpersonal Phenomenon 1 Connections
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Source Social perception (Wikipedia)
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1. Social perception (Wikipedia)
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Social perception (or interpersonal perception) is the study of how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people as sovereign personalities.
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The fascination and research for social perception date back to the late 1800s when social psychology was first being discovered.
In Branch: Cognitive Psychology, Categories
Wikipedia article 'Social perception' is filed under Category:Cognitive biases.
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