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- Title
Accuracy of social perception and effectiveness in interpersonal relationships.
- Authors
Gage, N. L.
- Abstract
Any social perception may be considered to have four components (a) the perceiver, (b) the individual or group perceived, (c) the evidence or stimuli available to the perceiver ("input"), and (d) the judgment reported by the perceiver ("outtake"). Each of these components, in turn, can be described along various dimensions. The entire domain of possible research on social perception in terms of these components can be mapped. A few examples are given from work by others already in the literature. Holding everything else constant, it can be studied how social perceptions differ according to characteristics of the perceiver. This paper analyzes some of the problems inherent in the proposition that accuracy of social perception correlates positively with effectiveness in interpersonal relationships. Four components of social perception were identified and illustrated: perceiver, perceivee, input, and outtake. Contradictory results of previous research on accuracy in relation to effectiveness were cited to illustrate the problem of developing a theory of relevant outtake, or kinds of perceptions to be elicited. The possibility of developing standard cases for the measurement of social perception was described and illustrated by current research. Finally, results were cited to suggest that there may be two types of accuracy of social perception, each internally consistent, yet negatively related to each other and not accounted for by an adherence-to-stereotype response set. The two types can on logical grounds be denoted "accuracy in perceiving manifest stimulus value" and "accuracy in taking the role of the other."
- Subjects
SOCIAL perception testing; INTERPERSONAL relations; EXAMPLE; CONDITIONED response; PSYCHOANALYSIS; JUDGMENT (Psychology)
- Publication
Journal of Personality, 1953, Vol 22, Issue 1, p128
- ISSN
0022-3506
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6494.1953.tb01802.x