Exam 4: Social Perception: How We Come to Understand Other People

Hong and colleagues (2003) primed bicultural students with American, Chinese, or neutral images.Why were they able to make more dispositional attributions in the American condition and more situational attributions in the Chinese condition?

The authors of your text report a story of a homeless man who spent his only quarter to find out why a couple (whose love letters he'd read) had broken up.This story demonstrates

________ information addresses the extent to which an actor behaves in a similar way in response to a stimulus across time and circumstances.

Chapter 1 of the textbook introduced the idea that people often behave and think in ways to protect their self-esteem.Which of the following will help do that?

The authors of your text present a study by Masuda and his colleagues (2008) that examined cultural differences in social perception.They compared how participants perceived a central character when the surrounding characters in a picture either matched or mismatched the central character's facial expression.What concept were they examining in this study?

Describe the role of culture in the fundamental attribution error.How prevalent is this error across cultures, and why do these differences exist?

All we can see is other people's appearance and behavior, but we are most interested in trying to infer from this

Recall that Roesch and Amirkham (1997) studied attributions for success and failure in athletes.Based on their findings, which of the following athletes would be most likely to make an external attribution for losing?

When do individuals in collectivist cultures make dispositional (internal) attributions?

Ekman and Friesen (1971) collected convincing evidence that facial expressions are universal.In their research, they studied

How have researchers collected evidence that there are six major human emotions conveyed via facial expressions?

If your friend were to do something that is not typical and not what she would regularly do, this lack of consistency would prompt you to make what kind of attribution?

Who displays fewer emotions in general?

Emre has a baby face.Noam just met him.What is Noam likely to think about Emre?

According to the authors, it's not easy to understand and explain other people's behaviors because

During spring term of her senior year, Linda feels overwhelmed with personal problems that she keeps to herself.She stops attending any extracurricular events and starts missing classes.Who is making the "fundamental attribution error" about Linda's behavior?

Recall that even when participants in an experiment conducted by Jones and Harris (1967) were told that people were assigned to write an essay sympathetic to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, they still were willing to assume that the essay reflected the writer's true "pro-Castro" attitudes.These findings illustrate

The social psychologist Fritz Heider is historically important in the field for his contribution of

If research by Pronin and colleagues regarding the bias blind spot applies to you, who would you think is least susceptible to making self-serving attributions?

Students in the United States seldom applaud after a lecture, whereas students in Europe often applaud or rap their knuckles on their desks.This cultural difference reflects the power of ________ to influence nonverbal communication.