Description

        The book examines person perception in its natural context, two people interaction with a relational
            history.  Using methodological innovations, it systematically studies what we think others are
            like, how we see ourselves and how we think others see us.  Results from 45 studies are used to
            answer nine basic questions in person perception.  The basic questions use a specialized notation 
            called Laing notation.  

Table of Contents (click for description of content)

        Chapter  1.  Introduction
        Chapter  2.  A Methodology for the Study of Interpersonal Perception
        Chapter  3.  Assimilation
        Chapter  4.  Consensus
        Chapter  5.  Uniqueness
        Chapter  6.  Reciprocity and Assumed Reciprocity
        Chapter  7.  Target Accuracy
        Chapter  8.  Meta-Perception
        Chapter  9.  Self-Perception
        Chapter 10.  Review and Integration

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List of Reviews

        Ickes, W.  (1996).  To see ourselves/others as others/we see us/them/themselves.  Contemporary
            Psychology, 41, 42-43.

        Book review essays in (1996) Psychological Inquiry, 7, 259-287.  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
            Reviews by R. W. Robins & O. P. John, D. C. Funder, L. Jussim, and D. L. Hamilton &
            N. L. Wyer.

Other Books Called Interpersonal Perception

    Ned Jones has a book with the title of Interpersonal Perception (1990).  When
I told him I planned on using the same title, he suggested that I call the book Son of
Interpersonal Perception.  I pointed out to him that the book by Laing, Phillipson, 
and Lee (1966) was also called Interpersonal Perception.  He told me that the 
Princeton library had only one book with that title and it was his.


Errata for Kenny's Interpersonal Perception:  A Social Relations Analysis

  Typographical

     Acknowledgments, page xiv, paragraph 4, line 4, word 4: it is "through."

     Appendix C, page 249, numerator of the second equation from the bottom:  drop the right parenthesis.

  Misstatements

     Chapter 3, page 46: in the Campbell et al. study, the perceiver effect moderately correlates across
         studies.  The correlation is not zero as the text states.

     Chapter 4, page 74: the kernel of truth parameter (r4 in the text and r6 in Appendix C) does affect
         consensus.  Its presence tends to flatten the relationship between acquaintance and consensus.

     Chapter 7: it is possible with a strong kernel of truth effect that there never is an increase in
         accuracy as a function of acquaintance.  Accuracy may even decline as a function of acquaintance.

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