Personal perception is how people form judgments about others, but it can be biased and influenced by stereotypes and assumptions. This can lead to errors in judgment and a self-fulfilling prophecy effect.
Personal perception, or persona perception, is how a person forms judgments and draws conclusions about the characteristics and motivations of others. The thought processes used are a big problem in social psychology as they determine how people think, feel and behave. Other people’s perceptions and judgments are significantly influenced by assumptions made about those people’s internal states. Society is based on personal perception as it involves how people perceive each other and the reaction to those perceptions.
Perception refers to how a person tries to understand the world in which they live. Information is gathered through the five senses, and perception gives meaning to sensory input. Personal perception differs from perception of inanimate objects in that inferences are made about intent, and judgment is based on how that intent is perceived. Different people infer and judge differently depending on their personalities and past experiences.
When judgments are made about other people’s motivations, errors and biases are often made or inferred. Personal perception often relies too much on internal or personal factors and less on the influence of external factors. Many times, we infer that other people do something because of their personality, but when we consider our actions, we think we do things because of the situation we are in. This is called the actor-observer effect. There is also a halo effect in that studies have shown that people are perceived as much better off or much worse off than they actually were.
There is a cognitive bias that is at play when processing information about others. First impressions are based on very little information and are influenced by factors such as social norms, stereotypes and physical cues such as clothing. Implicit personality theories are collections of beliefs and assumptions that everyone has that link certain traits to other characteristics and behaviors. Once you perceive one obvious trait, you assume others. This is one of the problems with perception as things are not always as they appear.
People who are perceived react to the judgment made about them either agreeing or disagreeing with that judgment. This can become a self-fulfilling prophecy in that if someone feels that the other is intelligent, that person reacts by acting intelligently. On the other hand, when a person treats another with contempt, the target of that perception may react by feeling contempt for themselves.
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