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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Recent studies question perception research, attributing findings to nonperceptual factors like demand characteristics.
  • There are calls to differentiate perception from judgment processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the limitations of research challenging perception-judgment links.
  • To highlight the role of judgment processes (e.g., misattribution, conversational dynamics) in experimental findings.
  • To propose methods for conducting perception research within experimental constraints.

Main Methods:

  • Critically evaluates existing research methodologies.
  • Integrates findings from social psychology regarding judgment processes.
  • Discusses the impact of experimental context on reported findings.

Main Results:

  • Challenges to perception research often overlook crucial judgment processes.
  • The disappearance of embodied effects in studies is predictable by social psychological models of judgment.
  • These findings support the role of embodied, action-preparation processes.

Conclusions:

  • Separating perception from judgment is problematic without accounting for cognitive and social factors.
  • Experimental contexts significantly influence how perception and judgment are studied.
  • Revised research approaches are needed to accurately capture embodied influences on perception.