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4.5 LET US SUM UP : 
In this chapter we have seen that two basic processing 
mechanisms are involved in the processing of social information. 
They are automatic processing and controlled processing. In 
addition, we have also learned that various potential sources of 
errors can lead to mistakes in social judgments and decision 
making. Hence, we need to guard ourselves against those. Though, 

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heuristics and various other errors in cognition increases 
vulnerability to make errors in thinking, most of the times they turn 
out to be useful. We also learned that the mood and cognitions are 
two distinct systems and both of them affect each other.
 
4.6 REFERENCES : 
 
1. Baron, R. A., Byrne, D. and Branscombe, N. R. (2006). Social 
Psychology. Prentice-Hall India: New Delhi.
2. Feldman, R. S. (2001). Social Psychology. Prentice Hall.
3. Bless, H. (2007). The Consequences of Mood on the 
Processing of Social Information. In A. Tesser, N. Schwarz 
(Eds.). Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: 
Intraindividual Processes (p 391-412). Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
4. Kahneman, D. (2003). A perspective on judgment and choice: 
Mapping bounded rationality. American Psychologist, 58, 697-
720. 
5. Tversky, A., and Kahneman, D. (1981). The Framing of 
Decisions and the Psychology of Choice. Science, New Series, 
211, 453-458. 

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SOCIAL PERCEPTION 
 
 
Unit Structure 
5.0 Objectives 
5.1 Introduction 
5.2 Definition of Social perception 
5.3 Different channels of nonverbal communication 
5.4 Darwin’s theory of universal facial expressions of emotion. 
5.5 Attribution, theories of attribution and attribution bias 
5.6 Applications of Attribution Theory
5.7 Let us sum up 
5.8 Questions