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| The process of combining, integrating and interpreting information about others to gain an understanding of them |
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| The process through which we attempt to determine the causes behind others’ behaviours |
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| Who a person is as defined in terms of his/her membership in various social groups |
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| Characteristics that define a particular person |
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| A concept recognizing that the way we perceive others and ourselves is based both on our unique (personal identity) and our membership in various groups (social identity) |
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| Judgments about people's perceptions, traits and characteristics that correspond to what we have observed of their actions |
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| Kelley’s theory of causal attribution (KTCA) |
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| The approach suggesting that people will believe others’ actions to be caused by internal and external factors based on three types of information; consensus, consistency and distinctiveness. |
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| In the KTCA, information regarding the extent to which other people behave in the same manner as the person being judged |
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| In KTCA information regarding the extent to which the person being judged acts the same way at other times. |
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