Wendy Alagon Danan
2MK-B/ MGT 221
December 6, 2011
Social Perception is like a psychology, it is a part of perception that allows people to understand individuals and groups of their social world. It also allows people to determine how others affect their personal lives. In mental processes of people, people usually use these devices to deal with sensory information and play a major role in creating perceptual problems. Or it is know as a “defensive Behavior”.
4 Devices:
a. Denial - a statement saying that something is not true or not correct. Or some information that we usually cannot take or too painful to hear, or even we don’t want to be embarrassed. We often to Deny the statement to avoid hurting ourselves, or It’s too hard to accept.
Examples:
· her continued denial of the story
· a denial of justice
· She's in denial.
b. Stereotyping - Classifying people because of one unique characteristic. Stereotyping is a form of prejudice that can form damaging images of people because of a particular characteristic without having any knowledge of the person. One perspective of stereotyping is that there are the concepts of ingroups and outgroups. From each individual's perspective, ingroups are viewed as normal and superior, and are generally the group that they already associate with, or aspire to join. While outgroup is simply all the other groups. They are seen as lesser than or inferior to the in-groups
Examples:
· Asians are smarter than Americans -because their education systems are more strict than that of the Americans.
c. Halo Effect- generalization from one good trait, the tendency to judge somebody as being totally good because one aspect of his or her character is good.
Examples:
· If a chef is famous for making one particular dish, then the halo effect allows people to assume that he can cook anything with equal proficiency.
d. Projection Bias- it is to project our own faults onto others instead of making an objective consideration of the situation. They also assume that others can do things as well as you.
Example:
· Someone who likes dogs might assume that all people like dogs, or an unfaithful spouse might conclude that everyone is unfaithful, since this would reflect his or her own experiences.
Sources: Fundamentals of Organizational Behavior, 4th Ed. By: Dubrin
