Social perception and social reality : why accuracy dominates bias and self-fulfilling prophesy / Lee Jussim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jussim, Lee J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social perception.

Stereotypes (Social psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (485 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.Jussim overturns the received wisdom conc

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: THIS BOOK, BASIC IDEAS, AND THE EARLY RESEARCH; 1 Introduction: How Might Social Beliefs Relate to Social Reality?; 2 Social Reality Is Not Always What It Appears To Be: The Scientific Roots of Research on Interpersonal Expectancies; 3 The Once Raging and Still Smoldering Pygmalion Controversy; PART TWO: THE AWESOME POWER OF EXPECTATIONS TO CREATE REALITY AND DISTORT PERCEPTIONS; 4 The Extraordinary Power of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies; 5 The Extraordinary Power of Expectancies to Bias Perception, Memory, and Information-Seeking

PART THREE: THE LESS THAN AWESOME POWER OF EXPECTATIONS TO CREATE REALITY AND DISTORT PERCEPTIONS6 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; 7 You Better Change Your Expectations Because I Will Not Change (Much) to Fit Your Expectations: Self-Verification as a Limit to Self-Fulfilling Prophecies; 8 The Less Than Awesome Power of Expectations to Distort Information-Seeking; 9 The Less Than Awesome Power of Expectations to Bias Perception, Memory, and Judgment

PART FOUR: ACCURACY: CONTROVERSIES, CRITICISMS, CRITERIA, COMPONENTS, AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES10 Accuracy: Historical, Political, and Conceptual Objections; 11 Accuracy: Criteria; 12 Accuracy: Components and Processes; PART FIVE: THE QUEST FOR THE POWERFUL SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY; 13 Teacher Expectations: Accuracy and the Quest for the Powerful Self-Fulfilling Prophecy; 14 Do Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Accumulate or Dissipate?; PART SIX: STEREOTYPES; 15 On the Pervasiveness and Logical Incoherence of Defining Stereotypes as Inaccurate; 16 What Constitutes Evidence of Stereotype Accuracy?

17 Pervasive Stereotype Accuracy18 Stereotypes and Person Perception: Can Judging Individuals on the Basis of Stereotypes Increase Accuracy?; 19 Stereotypes Have Been Stereotyped!; PART SEVEN: CONCLUSION; 20 Important, Interesting, and Controversial Work on Accuracy, Bias, and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies That Did Not Fit Elsewhere; 21 The 90% Full Glass Contests the Bias for Bias; REFERENCES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613624666

0-19-971061-9

1-280-59483-7

OCLC:

781629119