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Realism and constructivism in social perception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2017

John F. Kihlstrom
John F. Kihlstrom*
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Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1650. jfkihlstrom@berkeley.edu http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm
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Abstract

Jussim's critique of social psychology's embrace of error and bias is needed and often persuasive. In opting for perceptual realism over social constructivism, however, he seems to ignore a third choice – a cognitive constructivism which has a long and distinguished history in the study of nonsocial perception, and which enables us to understand both accuracy and error.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e7
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