Person Perception, Dispositional Inferences, and Social Judgment

Within-person covariation of agentic and communal perceptions: Implications for interpersonal theory and assessment

“…This application is particularly relevant as personality pathology is increasingly defined as a disorder of perceiving and relating to others (Skodol, 2012). The importance of how perceptions of others are organized (or perhaps distorted) and its impact on personality pathology is highlighted in several literatures including cognitive-behavioral (Beck, Freeman, David, & Assocciates, 2004), interpersonal (Leising & Borkenau, 2011; Pincus & Hopwood, 2012), psychodynamic (Bornstein, Denckla, & Chung, 2012), self-other agreement and person perception (Oltmanns & Turkheimer, 2006), and attachment (Shorey, 2010) theories of personality and psychopathology, as well as the integrative Cognitive-Affective Processing System (CAPS) approach to personality and adjustment (Eaton, South, & Kreuger, 2009; Kammrath, 2011). Examining the covariation of interpersonal perception in personality pathology could provide a useful new way to describe how such individuals organize their social experiences in the natural world.…”

The neural basis of perceiving person interactions

“…Contemporary work on person perception and person inferences focuses mainly on the processing of single individuals (see Ames, Fiske, & Todorov, 2011;Leising & Borkenau, 2010;Macrae & Quadflieg, 2010;Overwalle & Baetens, 2009;Zaki, 2013). As a result, theories on how we encode and integrate visual information involving several people remain poorly developed.…”

Relating Theory – Clinical and Forensic Applications

“…Leising and Borkenau ( 2011 ) conclude that this may the case because the consequences of the behaviour largely depend on the interpretation by the perceiver. Indeed, as early as the fi rst century, Epictetus ( ad 55-135) thought that people are not aff ected by the events themselves but by their interpretation of them (Dancy and Sosa 1993 ).…”