Person perception is the study of the cognitive processes involved in categorizing people
and their behavior, forming inferences about their qualities and the causes for their action …

Understanding other people amounts to one of the most important and complex challenges
humans regularly encounter. And yet, despite the enormously variable and noisy nature of …

The primary objective of the current chapter is to provide an overview of how contemporary
research in social psychology, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience can inform …

With the advent of cognitive neuroscience, there has been an increasing use of technologies
such as functional MRI and electroencephalography to study person perception—the …

The study of social perception has been a topic of continuing interest in social psychology. It
has been a rich and invigorating area driven by a diverse array of theoretical perspectives …

Groups, teams, and collectives—people—are incredibly important to human behavior.
People live in families, work in teams, and celebrate and mourn together in groups. Despite …

How do we learn what we know about others? Answering this question requires
understanding the perceptual mechanisms with which we recognize individuals and their …

To this point, we have focused on how the appearance, behaviors, and traits of the people
we encounter influence our understanding of them. It makes sense that this would be our …

Originally published in 1979, Perceiving Others is an excellent, short introduction to the area
of social psychology known as 'person perception','social perception'or 'impression …

This chapter introduces two popular models of interpersonal perception: David Kenny's
Social Relations Model decomposes interpersonal perception into contributions by the …