Title: The perception of people : integrating cognition and culture /
Authors: Hinton, Perry R. 1954-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Social perception; Social interaction.; Social interaction; Social perception
Abstract: "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."--Publisher's website.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.Seeing things -- and people -- A brief history of the visual perception of people and other things -- Putting `things' together: the Gestalt principles of perceptual organization -- What's out there? Indirect perception -- Evolved to see: direct perception -- Indirect and direct perception in the brain -- Computational modelling of perception -- Grounded and embodied cognition -- The predictive brain -- 3.The categorical perception of people -- Categorization in social perception -- Schemas -- Schematic processing -- Spreading rumours -- Representation in memory: associative networks -- People, categories, prototypes and exemplars -- Impression formation: snap judgements -- Impression formation: combining information -- The continuum model of impression formation -- Construal-level theory -- Social identity theory -- 4.The nature of social inference -- The rationality of human thought -- Rational choice theory --^