Person perception
The perception of people is a sub-area of social psychology . It examines how opinions and ratings about other people come about. On the basis of a person's utterances and actions, conclusions can be drawn about their current mood, intentions, attitudes and character traits.
The most precise possible perception of people is also a key qualification for people who are active in pastoral care - especially in pastoral discussions of individual pastoral care .
It should be noted that general processes of perceptual psychology are valid when perceiving people .
The perception and evaluation of oneself is a special case of perception , see self-image and self-worth . The same applies to research on the ' first impression ' one person makes on another person.
Multisensory person perception
The interplay of visual, acoustic, haptic and olfactory impressions during the perception and identification process is called multisensory person perception. In this context, there is also a connection between the areas of the brain that process the stimuli.
Sliwa, J., Duhamel, J.-R., Pascalis, O., Wirth, S. published the results of a study in June 2010 under the name “Spontaneous voice-face identity matching by rhesus monkeys for familiar conspecifics and humans”. They dealt with the question of whether rhesus monkeys, like humans, have a cognitive identity representation by combining individual elements into a whole during perception. In their experiment, they worked with rhesus monkeys, who were presented with the voice of a monkey or human they knew in a first run. They were then shown the picture of two monkeys or people, one of which matched the presented voice. The length of time the monkeys gazed at the picture with the familiar face that matched the voice was the measure of recognition. Sliwa et al. were able to show through this study that rhesus monkeys also have a cognitive representation of individuals that allows them to match two perceptual cues from different sensory channels.
Overall, multi-sensory perception of people is therefore an evolutionary advantage, as it enables humans or apes to identify conspecifics as well as other known living beings on the basis of partial information.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sliwa, J., Duhamel, J.-R., Pascalis, O., Wirth, S. published the results of a study in June 2010 under the name (2010). Spontaneous voice-face identity matching by rhesus monkeys for familiar conspecifics and humans. PNAS, 108 (4), 1735-1740