Systematic Biases in Understanding Ourselves and Others

Systematic Biases in Understanding Ourselves and Others

Date

3-28-2015

Author Bio(s)

Weylin Sternglanz, Ph.D., is an associate professor at NSU’s College of Psychology. He earned his doctoral degree in social psychology at the University of Virginia (2003), where he received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award and the Maury Pathfinder Award for Best Thesis. His primary research interests and publications are in the areas of interpersonal perception, nonverbal decoding accuracy, deception detection, and empathic accuracy. He is particularly intrigued by how people use verbal and nonverbal cues to infer the thoughts, emotions, and intentions of other people. He has received research funding from Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology, and was named Adviser of the Year in 2008 for his role with the honor society. Sternglanz teaches courses in social psychology, research methodology, interpersonal perception, and interpersonal communication. Just for fun, he helps run NSU’s Annual Undergraduate Film Festival.

Talk Description

People like to think that their perceptions of themselves and of other people are reasonably logical and accurate.Yet, it is easy to demonstrate that we are not only irrational—but systematically so—in our interpersonal perceptions.We are surprisingly poor at figuring out (a) whether other people are truthful or deceptive, (b) what other people are feeling and thinking, and (c) even whether other people notice our own behavior and appearance.We are also somewhat clueless when it comes to judging our own personality traits and evaluating our own performance. While we are actually quite savvy at noticing other people’s misguided interpersonal perceptions, we tend to be overly confident in our own self-awareness.This talk will explore why most of us just know that our own interpersonal perceptions are so much more rational and level-headed than those of the silly people around us.

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