An experimental study of social receptivity

Abstract

Any person cannot live in isolation from the social environment. Throughout our lives, we enter into relationships with people around us, form interpersonal relationships, and whole groups of people communicate with each other, thereby each of us becomes the subject of countless and diverse relationships. How we treat the interlocutor, and what kind of relationship we have with him, in many ways directly depends on how we perceive and evaluate the communication partner. When communicating, a person evaluates the appearance and behavior of each interlocutor. At the same time, as a result of the assessment, a certain attitude towards the interlocutor is formed and individual conclusions are made about his internal psychological properties. This mechanism of perception of one person by another is an integral part of communication and refers to social perception. The authors of the article, considering the concept of social perception, present the results of experimental studies of social perception conducted by various researchers. The analysis of studies on social perception by such scientists as V. S. Ageev, A. A. Bodalev, A. I. Dontsov, Sh. V. is carried out. Sarkisyan, J.Landel, J. Tucker, H. Friedman, V. E. Kagan, D. Hartley, N.A.Vasilyeva, S. Bern, and A. G. Shestakova, there is presented characteristics of causal consequences contributing to the social perception of respondents. The authors analyzed the formation of terminological and psychodiagnostic apparatus for studying the patterns of research and social perception. The article presents an analysis of the theoretical and empirical plan of social perception and the order of selection of diagnostic material. The study made it possible to identify the general form of the organization of experimental work and to identify topics that require additional research.