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- Title
On an approach to social perception.
- Authors
Luchins, Abraham S.; LUCHINS, A S
- Abstract
The article focuses on the research conducted by sociologists J.S. Bruner and L. Postman on social perception. The article is concerned with detailed analysis and criticism of certain aspects of their report. According to them, perception is a compromise between what the organism is given to see, excitation induced by the stimulus, and what the organism is set to see or wants to see, or even what the organism wants to avoid seeing. The investigators claim to be concerned with the contribution of the perceiver to the perceptual process They regard the organism as performing four functions during the perceptual process, selection, organization, accentuation, and fixation. The chief tool employed in the study of perceptual selectivity was a tachistoscope. It is implied, not only in Bruner and Postman's report, but in a number of recent studies of perception, that rapid, successive as posures of the stimulus object, such as is possible with the use of the tachistoscope, give optimum conditions for the study of the perceptual process.
- Subjects
SOCIAL perception; SOCIAL science research; BRUNER, J. S.; POSTMAN, L.; INTERPERSONAL relations; COGNITION; TACHISTOSCOPE
- Publication
Journal of Personality, 1950, Vol 19, Issue 1, p64
- ISSN
0022-3506
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6494.1950.tb01088.x