hers.In the research that I read, I found out that women have faster person perception skills than men do. The first article examined the accuracy and the power of sex, social class, and ethnic stereotypes in person perception. Virtually all research studies examining stereotypes in person perception have been experimental lab studies. Experiments are highly valuable because they identify the process relating stereotypes to person perception. The participants in this study included students and teachers in seventh grade public school math classes. The article touched on the point that stereotypes are inaccurate. It concluded that because there is no clear evidence that stereotypes are accurate. Nearly all broad reviews in the last thirty years have left inaccuracy out of the definition of stereotypes, it also concluded that stereotypes do have a big effect on person perception. The resource claims that people rely on stereotypes when judging one another a lot less now then thirty years ago. Overall, the article states that modern research shows that stereotypes are not always inaccurate and that their effects on person perception are often weak, but especially when compared to the effects of personal characteristics. There may be social situations characterized by situational and motivational conditions that promote greater bias. I think that this article leaves a lot to be answered, and there is a lot more research to be done. The research was only done on seventh grade students and their teachers so this information may not hold true for the rest of the society. The second article that I read was written about the effects of cognitive demand and judgment strategy in performance on the Interpersonal Perception Task. The Interpersonal Task contained thirty real life scenes on videotape for which there are objectively correct answers to questions about status, intimacy, kinship, competition and deception. For example, th...
