ARTICLE REVIEW

Article Review



Abstract:

Our society represent the kind of individuals we are, our actions represent our personality. Individuals are social animals and they belong to social groups in which they often exaggerate how their own opinions are different from the others. Individuals tend to believe that their opinions matter more and are right as compared to the other individuals opinions (Belle, 1997).

Introduction:

Our society represent the kind of individuals we are, our actions represent our personality. Individuals are social animals and they belong to social groups in which they often exaggerate how their own opinions are different from the others. Individuals tend to believe that their opinions matter more and are right as compared to the other individuals opinions.

Discussion:

According to many researches an individual's perception is always towards negativity which later creates more notions regarding their rivals about values that are central to their own sides' ideological position than those that are central to their rivals' position and perceptions of disagreement about their own central values are what predicts individuals total assessment of those people which these individuals single out and categorize them according to their stratification, status and looks by grouping them together through mental perception. Therefore, individuals believe that their perception was motivated by an opposition to their own core values rather than by promotion of the adversaries' core values (Bar-Tal, 2007).

However, there is by default for misconceptions to happen as in a group not every individual is in harmony or synced with each other. There is a certain level of inferiority which lingers around which makes a person perception is skewed. The peer pressure one individual experience makes their perception skewed resulting to a much biased approach to other individuals (Bar-Tal, 2007).

Four studies used experimental and correlation methods to investigate the effect of a “partner-achievement goal,” or a personal goal for a relationship partner's successful achievement. This goal led support providers to offer unhelpful support about how to play a computer game . It also predicted poor achievement for dieting support recipients. The effects of partner-achievement goals were moderated by recipient expectations of success and mediated by recipient effort. Recipients with low expectations of their own success requested that their provider partners with partner-achievement goals refrain from offering them support ; they also invested less time studying Latin grammar and learned fewer Latin words over one week. Together, these findings highlight the unique behavioral consequences of partner-achievement goals for both members of a relationship.

The situation is this that we individuals limit ourselves to just assuming things around us and considering that our perceptions and opinions are always right and ridiculing the other persons ideas. Sociological exchange of ideas can be both positive or negative depending on the magnittude of the idea. But by default, we individuals always have a notion about a certain thing. What the individuals fail to recognize is that the fact that our intergroup netowrking are the sole reasons this misconceptions arise and further these can escalate into immoral ...