- Title
- "We see things not as they are but as we are": social identity, self-categorization and perception
- Creator
- Reynolds, Katherine J.; Subasic, Emina
- Relation
- Psychological Inquiry Vol. 27, Issue 4, p. 348-351
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2016.1215665
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- We welcome the opportunity to engage with Y. Jenny Xiao, Geraldine Coppin, and Jay J. Van Bavel’s (this issue) thought-provoking work that seeks to further research interest and debate across domains that have rarely crossed paths before—yet clearly should. For the perception audience, the authors show that social identity shapes the way we see the world. For the social psychology audience, the message is that we have overlooked perception as an area of inquiry. For the discipline as a whole, the article makes a compelling case for a model that integrates social psychology, cognition, and perception in a way that no longer carves the mind “at false joints” (Xiao et al., this issue, p. 256). The message of the article is in line with the 1950s “New Look” movement (Bruner, 1957), where the perceiver is transformed from a “passive recording instrument of rather complex design” (Bruner & Goodman, 1947, p. 33) to being active in the environment. “New Look” represents a shift to a more perceiver-centered approach, where the perceiver’s needs, motivations, and expectations are considered fundamental to perception. What is attended to, what is apprehended, and what meaning is attributed to it are affected by perceiver factors.
- Subject
- social identity; self-categorization; perception; social psychology
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1449007
- Identifier
- uon:43547
- Identifier
- ISSN:1532-7965
- Language
- eng
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