The meaning of the following sources of error in social perception: stereotyping, halo effect and attribution errors.

How do we decide what another person is like? Since this is a question of how we attribute personality traits, motives and abilities to other people, the theories around how we do this are known as attribution theory. As human beings we naturally try to sum people up and often due to this give ourselves the wrong picture of somebody. In this essay I am going to try to explain three of these sources of …

…now legislation in place to give all people equal opportunities, although often this in harder to enforce than it seems. These are just three of many errors in social perception, it always has been about and probably always will be, the only way to help to combat these errors are to take more time when making judgements about others, use more information about others, develop self-awareness and to keep an open mind about other people.