Social Perception and Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

By L. Jussim. 2012

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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7. Peter B. Smith
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Citations in the corpus

• Lateral Reading and the Nature of Expertise: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information (2019, result): “Small sample sizes exaggerate differences (Jussim, 2012): We can’t rule out the possibility that doubling or tripling sample size would have produced different results.”
• Moral psychology for the twenty-first century (2013, background): “One of the largest causes of stereotypes and racism is the fact that most stereotypes correspond to a substantial degree with observable reality (Jussim, 2012).”
• The theory of planned behaviour is alive and well, and not ready to retire: a commentary on Sniehotta, Presseau, and Araújo-Soares (2015, background): “To be sure, more often than not, our beliefs correspond reasonably well to reality (Jussim, 2012).”
• What Is the Function of Confirmation Bias? (2020, background): “SFPs are, however, neither pervasive nor all-powerful (Jussim 2012), and there are various conditions for them to occur (Snyder and Klein 2007).”
• Accurate Personality Judgment (2012, background): “A second trend is that social psychology is finally moving away from its own formerly overwhelming bias in favor of studying bias in personality judgment (Jussim, 2012; Krueger & Funder, 2004).”
• Preference Change in Competitive Political Environments (2016, background): “Nearly all of Lau & Redlawsk’s study participants use one or more of the available cues as the basis of subsequent judgments (for reviews, see also Jussim 2012, Kelman 2011).”
• Situational construal is related to personality and gender (2013, background): “Research on person perception (e.g., Funder, 1999; Jussim, 2012; Kenny, 1994) has repeatedly demonstrated that people are generally accurate perceivers of others in their social worlds, which implies that they are likely to be accurate perceivers of their social contexts (i.e., situations) as well.”
• Stereotype (In)Accuracy in Perceptions of Groups and Individuals (2015, methodology): “…of miscellaneous other stereotypes (e.g., about occupations, college majors, sororities, etc.) has generally found accuracy levels comparable to those for demographic stereotypes (i.e., high personal and consensual accuracy correlations and low discrepancies; see Jussim, 2012, for a review).”
• Implicit stereotypes and the predictive brain: cognition and culture in “biased” person perception (2017, background): “Indeed, Jussim (2012) argues that when a perceiver has almost no information about a person except, say, a social category (“This person is an engineer”) then they may employ stereotypical associations, based on social knowledge, to make predictions about them (“Engineers are not interested in…”
• Attitudes towards sexual offenders: what do we know, and why are they important? (2017, background): “Conceptually, perceptions are more akin to stereotypical views and, thus, are primarily comprised of knowledge-based attributions about a topic or entity (Jussim, 2012).”
• Gender Stereotypes of Personality (2014, background): “…for gender stereotypes about abilities and behavioral tendencies (Swim, 1994) as well as the broader literature that suggests that there may be a “kernel of truth” in other forms of stereotypes including those about age (Chan et al., 2012) and race (for reviews, see Ryan, 2002, and Jussim, 2012).”
• Exploring the Pygmalion effect: The role of teacher expectations, academic self-concept, and class context in students’ math achievement (2019, background): “Interestingly, there are arguments for a conviction that age tends to strengthen TEE as well as for the assumption that older students are in a sense protected from TEE (Jussim, 2012).”