Perceiving Others

Originally published in 1979, this title is an excellent, short introduction to the area of social psychology known as 'person perception', 'social perception' or 'impression formation' - how people interpret each others' moods, predict each others' behaviour and sum up each others' characters.

Mark Cook

Preface. 1. The Problem: Issues in Person Perception Part 1: Processes Involved in Perceiving Other People 2. Inference or Intuition? The Mechanisms of Person Perception 3. Putting the Pieces Together: Processing Multiple Cues Part 2: Sources of Information in Perceiving Other People 4. Information Received: Inferences from Superficial Characteristics 5. The Reason Why: Inferences from Behaviour 6. Implicit Personality Theories: Inferences from Inferences Part 3: Accuracy in Perceiving Other People 7. 'Cronbach's Components': The Methodological Problems of Accuracy Research 8. The Good Judge of Others: Accuracy in Everyday Encounters 9. The Interview: Accuracy in Professional Encounters. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.