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Social Perception and Stereotyping: An Interpersonal and Intercultural Approach

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International Journal of Group Tensions

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Social perception and stereotyping have been important issues in social and cross-cultural psychology for most of the 20th century. After briefly reviewing its history, the current article discusses social perception and stereotyping from the interpersonal and the cross-cultural perspective. Specifically, these issues are presented along a dimension ranging from intraindividual, to intragroup, to intergroup perception. First, the discussion of interpersonal perception emphasizes social perception in a face-to-face context. Though this section may appear to be technical and complicated to some readers, this level of detail is necessary to elaborate a most basic version of the componential approach to interpersonal perception. Second, the section on social stereotypes discusses social identity theory and the ingroup and outgroup homogeneity effects. Finally, the article concludes with a discussion of lingering concerns in research on social perception and stereotypes.

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Lee, YT., Albright, L. & Malloy, T.E. Social Perception and Stereotyping: An Interpersonal and Intercultural Approach. International Journal of Group Tensions 30, 183–209 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005256425413

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