1. Social reality makes the social mind
- Author
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Florette Cohen, Lee Jussim, Kent D. Harber, Thomas R. Cain, and Jarret T. Crawford
- Subjects
Linguistics and Language ,Social psychology (sociology) ,Social perception ,Communication ,Social reality ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Stereotype ,Language and Linguistics ,Cognitive bias ,Experimenter's bias ,Human-Computer Interaction ,Social cognition ,Self-fulfilling prophecy ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,media_common ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
This paper contests social psychology’s emphasis on the biased, erroneous, and constructed nature of social cognition by: (1) showing how the extent of bias and error in classic research is overstated; (2) summarizing research regarding the accuracy of social beliefs; and (3) describing how social stereotypes sometimes improve person perception accuracy. A Goodness of Judgment Index is also presented to extract evidence regarding accuracy from research focusing on bias. We conclude that accuracy is necessary for understanding social cognition.
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- 2005