What are other people like? How do we decide if someone is friendly, honest or clever? What assumptions do we develop about them and what explanations do we giv

Person perception is of great importance in everyday life and human science. Judgment of other people's characteristics and intentions is important for suc cess

This volume focuses on social perception, the processing of information about people. This issue has always been central to social psychology, but this book bri

Neither human nature nor personality can be independent of culture. Human beings share certain social norms or rules within their cultural groups. Over 2000 yea

Life becomes difficult for the judges of others when they are presented with a number of facts about someone which all point in different directions, or which p