Social Perceptions

Personal Attribution

How you view an individuals traits.

Summation VS Average

Summation: The more good aspects said about a person the better

Average: More aspects told about a person can bring down their value.

Information integration theory def

Only paying attention to what is important to you.

The Negative Bias def

Paying attention to the bad aspects even when the good aspects outweigh the bad

Implicit personality Theory def

Describe how individuals think of individual traits as relating to and occurring with each other.

Thus in which your other traits revolve around a central trait.

Primary Effect def

In which the trait you hear first devalue the preceding traits.

Attribution theory def

Attribution theory is concerned with how ordinary people explain the causes of behavior and events

WHO invented internal and external attribution an the DEF

Created by Heider internal attribution (are the internal factors that affect your behavior) and external attribution ( outside factors that affect you behavior).

Jones & Nisbett: Fundamental attribution error

the tendency for people to over-emphasize dispositional or personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in others while under-emphasizing situational explanations.

Just- World Hypothesis by Lerner

The philosophy that good things happen to good people.

Correspondent Interference Theory (Jones & Davis)

In which people make inferences bout a individual based on their behavior.

Non- Common effects

the effects or outcomes that are not typically expected or commonly observed in a particular situation. This is related to the Correspondent Interference Theory

Kelley’s Covariation Model

Looking at attribution based on 3 attributes:

1. Consistency: actor in similar situations

2. Distinctiveness: Actor and different situations

3. Consensus: other actors in the same situations.

Weiner’s Attribution theory

Attribution Retaining