Interpersonal Communication Assignment 1: Essay
A+ = Situations are perceptively explained. Appropriate theories are defined well and applied accurately to the situations discussed. Analysis shows abstract thinking and insight. Clear evidence and specific examples given that show that the student has drawn original conclusions from their reflections. Self-evaluation shows that the student has extracted and internalised the personal significance of their reflections. Includes a wide range of reading. In-text citations and references are complete and in the required format. Well structured, concisely, clearly and accurately written.
Part A: Earlier this month I was attending a job interview at a ‘high-brow’ women’s retail store. When …show more content…
In essence, implicit personality theory consists of a set of rules of which we use to determine the characteristics of an individual, and we often base this theory off of one characteristic. (DeVito, 2012) These set of rules are ‘general principles about what sorts of characteristics go together to form certain types of personality’ (Vaughan & Hogg, 2014, p. 29) .The ‘halo effect’ or ‘reverse halo effect’ usually occurs when we start forming our theories. The halo effect is what happens when we take a known quality about a person and attribute similar qualities to this person. For example, if a person is intelligent, we are likely to infer this person also possesses other positive qualities like being hard working, studious, and aspirational. This set of rules can be helpful when quickly forming an impression of someone, although it can also lead to attributing qualities to a person that don’t even exist. This kind of distortion is what happened when I met the manager and is what’s called the ‘reverse halo effect’ – looking at a negative characteristic and then applying other negative characteristics to their personality. Upon meeting her for the first time and handing her my CV, her irritable attitude was a characteristic that stuck out most to me. When I thought back to her grumpy demeanour I began to form her personality based on this one quality. I inferred she would also be aloof, dishonest, cold, and condescending. As explained before, Coyle (1993) notes that a negative impression is very difficult to change once formed, even in the light of new positive information – as was the case with my experience. My negative perception of the manager was then intensified by the reverse halo effect. By using my personality theory and its distortions of the halo effect, I built on my impression of her by attributing my
A+ = Situations are perceptively explained. Appropriate theories are defined well and applied accurately to the situations discussed. Analysis shows abstract thinking and insight. Clear evidence and specific examples given that show that the student has drawn original conclusions from their reflections. Self-evaluation shows that the student has extracted and internalised the personal significance of their reflections. Includes a wide range of reading. In-text citations and references are complete and in the required format. Well structured, concisely, clearly and accurately written.
Part A: Earlier this month I was attending a job interview at a ‘high-brow’ women’s retail store. When …show more content…
In essence, implicit personality theory consists of a set of rules of which we use to determine the characteristics of an individual, and we often base this theory off of one characteristic. (DeVito, 2012) These set of rules are ‘general principles about what sorts of characteristics go together to form certain types of personality’ (Vaughan & Hogg, 2014, p. 29) .The ‘halo effect’ or ‘reverse halo effect’ usually occurs when we start forming our theories. The halo effect is what happens when we take a known quality about a person and attribute similar qualities to this person. For example, if a person is intelligent, we are likely to infer this person also possesses other positive qualities like being hard working, studious, and aspirational. This set of rules can be helpful when quickly forming an impression of someone, although it can also lead to attributing qualities to a person that don’t even exist. This kind of distortion is what happened when I met the manager and is what’s called the ‘reverse halo effect’ – looking at a negative characteristic and then applying other negative characteristics to their personality. Upon meeting her for the first time and handing her my CV, her irritable attitude was a characteristic that stuck out most to me. When I thought back to her grumpy demeanour I began to form her personality based on this one quality. I inferred she would also be aloof, dishonest, cold, and condescending. As explained before, Coyle (1993) notes that a negative impression is very difficult to change once formed, even in the light of new positive information – as was the case with my experience. My negative perception of the manager was then intensified by the reverse halo effect. By using my personality theory and its distortions of the halo effect, I built on my impression of her by attributing my