What factors influence us in making judgment about others?. What are the common errors we make in judging other people’s behaviors?.

1. What factors influence us in
making judgment about others?.
What are the common errors we
make in judging other people’s
behaviors?.

2. Organizational Behavior / Perception 2

3. What Is Perception, and Why Is It
Important?
Perception
• People’s behavior is
A process by which based on their
individuals organize and perception of what
interpret their sensory reality is, not on
impressions in order to reality itself.
give meaning to their
environment. • The world as it is
perceived is the world
that is behaviorally
important.
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4. Factors influencing perception
A number of factors operate to shape and
sometimes distort perception. These factors
can reside in the perceiver, in the object or
target being perceived or in the context of
the situation in which the perception is
made.

5. factors influence us in
making judgment
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6. Factors in the perceiver
Attitudes
Motives
Interest
Experiences
Expectations

7. Factors in the target
Novelty
Motion
Sounds
Size
Background
Proximity
Similarity

8. Causes of errors in judgments
Selective Perception :
People selectively interpret what they see on the basis of their
interests, background, experience and attitudes.
Halo Effect :
Drawing a general impressions about an individual on the basis of a
single characteristics

9. Contrast Effect :
Evaluation of a person’s characteristics that are effected by comparisons with
other people recently encountered who rank higher or lower on the same
characteristics.
Projection :
Attributing one's own characteristics to other people.
Stereotyping :
Judging someone on the basis of one’s perception of the group to which that
persons belongs.

10. “ WE DON’T SEE THINGS AS
THEY ARE, WE SEE THINGS
AS WE ARE.”