Social Perception and Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-fulfilling Prophesy
- ISBN-10
- 0199933049
- ISBN-13
- 9780199933044
- Category
- Social perception
- Pages
- 474
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Author
- Lee J. Jussim
Description
This title contests the received wisdom in the field of social psychology that suggests that social perception and judgment are generally flawed, biased, and powerfully self-fulfilling.
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- 2012-04-06
- 474 pages
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- 2012-04-06
- 486 pages
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- Oxford University Press
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