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'Use of language often influences the perceptions we form of other people'.
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INFLUENCES ON PERECEPTION 'Use of language often influences the perceptions we form of other people'. At some point in our lives, every single one of us has stereotyped an individual or a group of people before we have even met them, be it a negative or positive perception. Then after communicating with them we find ourselves asking 'how the hell did I ever assume they would act in that way?' Often they don't act in a way that is a good fit with our original perception Even when we communicate with a person, we are often too busy analysing their dialect, social class ethnicity etc. to even notice the message they are actually trying to put across to us. Before we get to know a person, we can usually actually see their age, ethnicity, gender (hopefully) and sometimes their social class (unfortunately). When we consider someone's age we usually assume that the younger...
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