DO NOT BUY OR EVEN READ MY NEW BOOK, Social Perception and Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (Oxford University Press). If you are committed to a view of social perception as deeply flawed, this is NOT the book for you.

If you want to avoid discovering that many of the early "classics” of expectancy-confirmation never actually found what they claimed, or have proven irreplicable – DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!

If you do not want to discover that classic "tell a great story to undergraduates” pseudo-demonstrations of error and bias, such as Hastorf & Cantril (1954) and Rosenhan (1973) actually showed people almost completely unbiased and in touch with reality – DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!

If you get great pleasure "informing” undergraduates about powerful and pervasive self-fulfilling prophecies that accumulate to produce ever-larger differences between the advantaged and disadvantaged, DON’T READ THIS BOOK. It will deprive you of that pleasure…

If you are hell-bent on treating effects of r=.10 as important, powerful, and influential, and as a "difficult to override default," and others of r=.70 as hardly worth mentioning, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK (r=.10 is the average effect of stereotypes on person perception and r=.70 is the average effect of individuating information on person perception – I WARNED YOU, STOP READING NOW!).

If you want to maintain your belief that stereotypes are inherently (or even mostly) irrational, biased, inaccurate and exaggerated overgeneralizations, you should NOT read about the mountains of data showing otherwise.

If you do not want to discover that many scholars routinely make claims about the alleged inaccuracies of social perception and stereotypes without actually citing or reviewing studies that assess accuracy -- DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!

If you cannot possibly believe that studies that have actually assessed accuracy sometimes show that relying on stereotypes actually increases accuracy in person perception – DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!

In short, if you cannot possibly believe that the vast accumulated research on social perception, stereotypes, expectancies, and self-fulfilling prophecies actually shows that lay social perceptions are largely accurate, rational, and in touch with reality, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK! BLOCK YOUR BROWSER FROM LOADING THIS POST BEFORE IT IS … TOO LATE!

And, if after all these warnings, you still decide to read it:

1. Don't say I did not I warn you

and

2. Enjoy!

Best,

 Lee Jussim