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Three fundamental principles of perception:

• Selection
• Organisation
• Inference

All affect perception of people but

• people behave objects do not
• people interact with other people - one person's behaviour can influence another's
• people perceive and experience but objects cannot - each person's perception of one other is at least partly a product of the other's perception of them

Often the first thing we notice about someone is some aspect of their appearance (e.g. clothes, hair) and to this extent we are treating them as things - first step towards stereotyping.

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