Briefly explain the evolutionary perspective on bias in person perception
What will be an ideal response?
Evolutionary psychologists ascribe much of the bias in person perception to cognitive structures that have been shaped by natural selection.
Evolutionary psychologists argue that many biases in person perception were adaptive in our ancestral past. For example, automatically categorizing others may reflect the primitive need to quickly separate friend from foe. They assert that humans have the automatic tendency to classify people as members of an ingroup (a group one belongs to and identifies with) or as a member of an outgroup. Ingroup members tend to be viewed in a positive light; outgroup members are viewed in a less favorable one.
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