People constantly and effortlessly acquire information about one another’s decisions and use this information to form impressions (and judgments) of others. We review research on this process of choice perception — how people come to make sense of others’ choices. We suggest that choice perception consists of observers’ inferences about (a) what was chosen, (b) why it was chosen, (c) how (or through what process) it was chosen, and (d) broader impressions about who chose it. These inferences can affect observers in multiple ways, such as prompting erroneous beliefs about the actor due to interpersonal errors (i.e., mistakes in how observers perceive actors) and cue-perception errors (i.e., mistakes in how observers perceive chosen options), as well as changes in one’s own behavior.

人们不断地、毫不费力地获取关于彼此决定的信息，并利用这些信息来形成对他人的印象（和判断）。我们回顾了关于选择感知过程的研究 ——人们如何理解他人的选择。我们建议选择感知包括观察者对（a）选择什么，（b）为什么选择它，（c）如何（或通过什么过程）选择它，以及（d）关于谁的更广泛印象的推断。选择了它。这些推论可以以多种方式影响观察者，例如由于人际交往错误（即观察者如何看待演员的错误）和线索感知错误（即观察者如何看待所选选项的错误）而引发对演员的错误信念，以及作为自己行为的改变。