Perceiving Others

In the study by Todorov, Mandisodza, Goren, and Hall (2005), participants' judgments of which political candidate had the most competent face predicted the actual election result what percentage of the time?

What is the term for the process of learning about other people?

In Ambady and Rosenthal's (1993) study, how long were the video clips of instructors that participants viewed to form their impressions?

Which of the following is the best definition of nonverbal behavior?

According to research on cultural norms of nonverbal behavior, in which of the following regions is it appropriate to stand very close to another person during conversation?

According to Ekman and Friesen (1974), what part of the body are people better able to use to detect others' true emotions?

Approximately how many trait terms exist in the English language?

When forming an overall judgment of a person by combining their traits, what mental process are people more likely to use?

In Solomon Asch's (1946) research, what are traits like 'warm' and 'cold' known as, due to their powerful influence on our perceptions of other traits?

What is the primacy effect in the context of person perception?

In the study by Koppell and Steen (2004) on elections in New York City, what percentage of the time was the candidate listed first on the ballot elected?

What is one cognitive reason for the primacy effect, where we pay more attention to information that comes first?

According to the meta-analysis by Bond and DePaulo (2006) on detecting deception, how accurate were participants at correctly identifying lies and truths?

What did Hansen and Hansen (1988) find about people's ability to identify discrepant faces in a crowd?

What term describes the phenomenon where information that comes later is given more weight in forming an impression?

What is the process of trying to determine the causes of people's behavior called?

When we decide that a person's behavior was caused primarily by the situation, what kind of attribution are we making?

In the study by Jones, Davis, and Gergen (1961), when were participants most likely to believe a job applicant's statements reflected his true personality?

What principle states that a given behavior is more likely to have been caused by the situation if that behavior changes across situations?

Which type of covariation information is being used when we consider whether a behavior occurs only when the situation is present but not when it is absent?

In Bernard Weiner's model of attributions for success and failure, what does the 'locus' dimension refer to?

According to Bernard Weiner's analysis, if you believe you succeeded on a test because you are really smart, how would this attribution be classified?

What is the common tendency to overestimate the role of person factors and overlook the impact of situations when explaining the behavior of others known as?

In the study by Skitka and colleagues (2002) involving a quizmaster and a contestant, what error did participants make?

What is the actor-observer difference?

In the study by Nisbett and colleagues (1973), what did participants do more frequently for themselves than for other people like their father or Walter Cronkite?

Why do personal attributions tend to dominate over situational ones?

What are attributions that help us meet our desires to see ourselves positively called?

In the study by Jones, Davis, and Gergen (1961) where participants viewed job interviews, what percentage of extraverted responses did participants believe the applicant would endorse when he claimed to be extraverted for the submariner job?

Under what condition is it easiest to make a personal attribution for someone's behavior?

What is the term for the extent to which a person characteristic quickly and easily comes to mind for a perceiver, influencing what they notice about others?

What does the term 'need for cognition' refer to?

What do entity theorists tend to believe about personality?

How do incremental theorists differ from entity theorists?

What was the main finding of Carol Dweck's study on junior high school students' attributional styles and their math performance?

How do people from Western cultures, on average, tend to differ from those from East Asian cultures in making attributions?

What did Miller's (1984) study find when comparing older children and adults from India and the United States in explaining negative actions?

In the study by Masuda and Nisbett (2001), what did Japanese students tend to do more than American students when describing underwater scenes?

In the study with bicultural Hong Kong students by Morris and colleagues, what was the effect of priming them with American cultural symbols?

What is the term for the type of attributions that we tend to make for the events that occur to us?

People with a negative attributional style explain negative events by referring to what kind of qualities?

What is the term for the tendency to make external, rather than internal, attributions for our behaviors, often after experiencing uncontrollable negative events?

When we make statements or engage in behaviors that help us create a convenient external attribution for a potential failure, what are we doing?

In the study on self-handicapping by Berglas and Jones (1978), what did male participants choose to do after succeeding on an intelligence test?

What is the term for the tendency to be overly positive about the likelihood that negative things will occur to us and our ability to cope with them?

What are the two primary goals we have in the social dynamic with other people?

According to the research by DePaulo and her colleagues on cues to deception, which of the following is a behavior more typical of liars compared to truth tellers?

In Weiner's model of attributions for success and failure, how is 'luck' classified?

In Weiner's model of attributions for success and failure, how is 'ability' classified?

What did Kim and Markus (1999) discover when analyzing advertisements from popular magazines in the United States and Korea?