The Social Psychology of Perceiving Others Accurately

Judith A. Hall, Marianne Schmid Mast, Tessa V. West

Cambridge University Press, 2016 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 430 pages

We are constantly forming impressions about those around us. Social interaction depends on our understanding of interpersonal behavior - assessing one another's personality, emotions, thoughts and feelings, attitudes, deceptiveness, group memberships, and other personal characteristics through facial expressions, body language, voice and spoken language. But how accurate are our impressions and when does such accuracy matter? How is accuracy achieved and are some of us more successful at achieving it than others? This comprehensive overview presents cutting-edge research on this fast-expanding field and will be essential reading for anyone interested in the psychology of interpersonal perception. A wide range of experts in the field explore topics including age and gender effects, psychopathology, culture and ethnicity, workplaces and leadership, clinicians' skills, empathy, meta-perception, and training people to be more accurate in their perceptions of others.

Contents

• many traditions: 3
• Accuracy of judging emotions: 23
• judging thoughts and feelings: 52
• Accuracy of distinguishing truth from: 71
• Accuracy of judging personality: 98
• Accuracy of perceiving social attributes: 125
• Accuracy of judging group attitudes: 143
• do people know how others perceive: 165
• Accuracy in perceiving facial expressions of emotion: 185
• matthew w e murry: 206
• Situational influences on interpersonal accuracy: 230
• Training people to be interpersonally accurate: 253
• Interpersonal accuracy in relation to the workplace: 270
• Interpersonal accuracy in the clinical setting: 287
• Gender differences in interpersonal accuracy: 309
• Interpersonal accuracy in relation to culture and ethnicity: 328
• real and perceived links: 350
• Is there a general skill in perceiving others accurately?: 379
• What we know and the future of interpersonal accuracy: 404
• Index: 425

About the author

Judith A. Hall is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University, Boston. She has been editor-in-chief of Patient Education and Counseling and the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, and is currently an associate editor at that journal. She has written and edited several books on nonverbal behavior, interpersonal accuracy and physician-patient communication. Marianne Schmid Mast is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. She has published over seventy peer-reviewed scientific articles and is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior and on the editorial board of the journal Leadership Quarterly. Tessa V. West is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University. Her work examines the experience of inter-group interaction from the perspective of all partners and she has published over thirty articles on interpersonal perception.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Social Psychology of Perceiving Others Accurately
• Editors: Judith A. Hall, Marianne Schmid Mast, Tessa V. West
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016
• ISBN: 1107101514, 9781107101517
• Length: 430 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies; Psychology / Developmental / Child; Psychology / Personality; Psychology / Social Psychology; Science / Life Sciences / Neuroscience; Social Science / General