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Number 1/2006
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From the symbiotic perspective: Comments on Bogdan Wojciszke and
Wiesław Baryła's conception of social perception processes
Kinga Piber-Dšbrowska
Warsaw School of Social Psychology
Grzegorz Sędek
Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Abstract |
In our comments we discuss three aspects of the conception that proposes to
distinguish the agent and recipient perspectives in social perception processes.
First, we note that the relations between agent and recipient might often be of
a more indirect than direct nature. Second, we underline the importance of
differentiating intentional and automatic processes, especially from the agent
perspective. Third, we suggest that new theoretical developments within classical
research on actor-observer differences seem to be sufficient to explain the
bulk of the reported research findings and, thus, the additional distinction
between agent and recipient perspectives might be somewhat misleading.
Key words: direct and indirect relations, intentional and automatic processes,
actor-observer difference
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