Psychology
8 years ago

Visual cues have little impact on social judgements, confidence boosted instead.

European Journal of Social Psychology
Social categorization, visual cues, and social judgements
N. K. Clark, D. R. Rutter

Paper Summary

The study looked at how visual cues and prior knowledge affect social judgements. They found that while knowing someone's category influences judgements, visual cues don't have much impact. However, visual cues do make people more confident in their judgements.

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