Social judgement

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The question of how people judge stimuli is one of the oldest in psychology. Judgement tasks can take many forms, and they can crop up in any branch of psychology. Deciding whether a stimulus is present or absent, similar to or different from a standard, larger or smaller, better or worse – all these are kinds of judgement; so too is the decision that a stimulus belongs to a particular category, or that stimuli within one category resemble each other more than they resemble stimuli within another category. In short, the term ‘judgement’ refers to all those processes whereby any piece of information on perceptual input is compared to some criterion. Theories of judgement essentially try to describe how such processes of comparison operate.

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