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refers to the ways in which people come to understand the causes of their own and others behaviors. Attribution process reflects people's need to explain events through the deliberate actions of others rather than viewing them as random events.

employees who live and work outside of their home country.

Perceptual defense, stereotyping, the halo effect, projection and impression management.

the belief that space needs to be in harmony with the environment. According to feng shui, what is being perceived may be subtle and greatly influences perceptions and behaviors.

is the tendency to underestimate the influence of situational factors and to overestimate the influence of personal factors in evaluating someone else's behavior. This error causes perceivers to ignore important environmental factors that often significantly affect a person's behavior.

refers to the loss in performance resulting from low expectations on the boss's part.

refers to evaluating another person solely on the basis of one attribute, either favorable or unfavorable. Can happen in the first 2 seconds of meeting someone.

person's beliefs about the relationships between another's physical characteristics and personality.

is the attempt by an individual to manipulate or control the impressions that others form about them.

the process by which people select, organize, interpret, and respond to information from the world around them. Key words are select and organize.

the tendency for people to protect themselves against ideas, objects, or situations that are threatening.

is an expectation of a particular interpretation based on past experience with the same or similar object.

the process by which individuals attribute characteristics or traits to other people.

states that people process pleasant events more efficiently and accurately than they do unpleasant events.

the tendency for people to see their own traits in other people. They project their own feelings, personality characteristics, attitudes or motives on to others.

Positive self-fulfilling prophecies. Holding high exceptions of another tends to improve the individuals' performance.  Basically, people's expectations determine their behavior or performance, thus serving to make their expectations come true. We strive to validate our perceptions of reality no matter how faulty they may be.

the process by which people filter out most information so that they can deal with the most important matters. Depends of external and internal factors.

tendency for someone's expectations about another to cause that individual to behave in a manner consistent with those exceptions. Expecting certain things to happen shapes the behavior of the perceiver in such a way that the expected is more likely to happen.

refers to individuals attributing their success to internal factors (ability or effort) and attributing their failure to external factors (task difficulty or luck)

the belief that all members of specific groups share similar traits and behaviors.