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Social perception - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In psychology and cognitive sciences, perception is the process of acquiring, interpreting, selecting and organizing sensory information. The term perception comes from the Latin word capere , mea...
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WHAT IS SOCIAL PERCEPTION? ... Being competent in social perception includes three domains of competence: (1) knowing that other people have thoughts, beliefs, emotions, intentions, desires, and the like, (2) being able to “read” other people’s inner states based on their words, behavior, facial expression and the...
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Social perception applies to oneself as well. One finding is that people see themselves as having more of traits (when asked unidimensionally, or "how much of trait X do you have a little to a lot") than other people, yet rating themselves in the middle of bipolar scales.
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1. Synthesize variables important in Perception ... 2. Evaluate explanations of Processing social data ... 1. IMPORTANT VARIABLES IN PERCEPTION...
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All these questions (and many more) will be addressed in the first unit of Social Cognition: Social Perception. A broad definition of social cognition is that it studies how people make sense of social situations, other people and themselves.
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Participants were assessed on social perception, social knowledge, interpersonal problem-solving, cognition and social functioning. ... Results There were significant associations between social cognition, cognition and social functioning in all three groups. Deficits in social cognition were stable over time. In the first...
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