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How a person perceives themselves and others substantially influences the communication between an individual and other people in every aspect of communication. When we communicate with others we unintentionally start our own individual evaluations, the manner of how they are dressed, if they use eye contact, the tone of their voice, verbiage from whoever is involved to act differently with the other person. The age, sex and familiarity with other people also affect how we communicate, since we differ to others that we respect or speak with. In this essay I will analyze how perceptions are formed by different people but of the same person. It is believed that perceptions are developed at an early age, as different life events take place the influences of our likes and dislikes start to form. After reading a few chapters of Communication in a changing World by Bethami A. Dobkin and Roger C. Pace, I can understand how it is possible for everyone to have different perceptions. Clearly, exposure can influence attraction under a variety of conditions. It is possible; however, that exposure has another important effect on person perception as well. In particular, mere exposure may increase the perceived similarity of others to us. There are two ways in which mere exposure could alter our beliefs about the similarity of others. First, repeated exposure could have
A direct effect on perceived similarity, no matter the corresponding changes in attraction. We like to assume that the people we meet share at least some of our own attitudes, values, and beliefs .Using three of my family members, all of different ages and characters I conducted a small survey of perceptions using a picture of a man who appeared to be resting in the grass at a park, I allowed each observer to review the picture separately and write down their observations on a sheet