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" Social perception and social reality : "
Lee Jussim
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623808
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Jussim, Lee J
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Social perception and social reality : : why accuracy dominates bias and self-fulfilling prophesy /\ Lee Jussim
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x, 474 pages :: illustrations;; 24 cm
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9780195366600
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: 0195366603
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Section I: Introduction: This Book, Basic Ideas, and the Early Research. Introduction: How Might Social Beliefs Relate to Social Reality? ; Social Reality is Not Always What it Appears To Be: The Scientific Roots of Research on Interpersonal Expectancies ; The Once Raging and Still Smoldering Pygmalion Controversy. -- Section II: The Awesome Power of Expectations to Create Reality and Distort Perceptions. The Extraordinary Power of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies ; The Extraordinary Power of Expectancies to Bias Perception, Memory, and Information-Seeking. -- Section III: The Less Than Awesome Power of Expectations to Create Reality and Distort Perceptions. The Less Than Extraordinary Power of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Considerations Based on Common Sense, Daily Life, and a Critical Evaluation of the Early Classic Experiments ; You Better Change Your Expectations Because I Will Not Change (Much) to Fit Your Expectations: Self-Verification as a Limit to Self-Fulfilling Prophecies ; The Less Than Awesome Power of Expectations to Distort Information-Seeking ; The Less Than Awesome Power of Expectations to Bias Perception, Memory and Judgment. -- Section IV: Accuracy: Controversies, Criticisms, Criteria, Components, and Cognitive Processes. Accuracy: Historical, Political, and Conceptual Objections ; Accuracy: Criteria ; Accuracy: Components and Processes. -- Section V: The Quest for the Powerful Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. Teacher Expectations: Accuracy and the Quest for the Powerful Self-Fulfilling Prophecy ; Do Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Accumulate or Dissipate?. -- Section VI: Stereotypes. On the Pervasiveness and Logical Incoherence of Defining Stereotypes as Inaccurate ; What Constitutes Evidence of Stereotype Accuracy? ; Pervasive Stereotype Accuracy ; Stereotypes and Person Perception: Can Judging Individuals on the Basis of Stereotypes Ever Increase Accuracy? ; Stereotypes Have Been Stereotyped!. -- Section VII: Conclusion. Important, Interesting and Controversial Work on Accuracy, Bias, and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies that Did Not Fit Elsewhere ; The 90% Full Glass Contests the Scholarly Bias for Bias
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"Social Perception and Social Reality contests the received wisdom in the field of social psychology that suggests that social perception and judgment are generally flawed, biased, and powerfully self-fulfilling. Jussim reviews a wealth of real world, survey, and experimental data collected over the last century to show that in fact, social psychological research consistently demonstrates that biases and self-fulfilling prophecies are generally weak, fragile, and fleeting. Furthermore, research in the social sciences has shown stereotypes to be accurate."--Publisher's website
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Social perception
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Stereotypes (Social psychology)
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BF323.S63J87 2012
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