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Social Perception and Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Lee Jussim

This title contests the received wisdom in the field of social psychology that suggests that social perception and judgment are generally flawed, biased, and powerfully self-fulfilling.

ScienceScience · medium confidenceScience81 signalsLlm Classifier: Science -> ScienceGoogle Books: Psychology -> Medicine & Public HealthAward Category: PROSE Award for Psychology -> Medicine & Public HealthMental Health & PsychologyScience & DiscoveryCourts & Trials

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PROSE Award for Psychology2012WinnerOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

    This suggestion did not meet the normal display threshold and is more likely to be wrong.

    Social perception and judgment are not generally flawed or biased; accuracy dominates bias and prevents self-fulfilling prophecy in social reality.

    Model confidence 48%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    70 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 42%.