How Our Social Perceptions Affect Our Behavior - Deepstash
How Our Social Perceptions Affect Our Behavior

How Our Social Perceptions Affect Our Behavior

  • Cognitive scientists found that our social perceptions greatly impact our behavior, specifically in regard to our mental distances vs physical distances.
  • We tend to draw ourselves closer to individuals we label as "friends" and increase the distance between ourselves and those we consider "strangers".
  • It's also been observed that individuals with negative opinions of other cultures may overestimate the physical distance between them and that culture's cities.
  • Our social world has a significant influence on how we interact with others and perceive our surroundings.

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Some friends are ‘close’– others are ‘distant’. But our spatial descriptions of social life are more than just metaphors.

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