Effects of salience of stimulus inconsistency on impression formation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6204680
AutoresClyde Hendrick (autor correspondente)
Ano1972
Volume22
Fascículo2
Páginas219-222
Data de publicação1972-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315
EditoraAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/h0032599
PMID5024080
OpenAlexW1967218860
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20
Referências citadas8

Previous experiments on impression formation have found few effects on ratings due to trait inconsistency. Typical procedures tend to make inconsistency nonsalient for subjects. In the present experiment both the magnitude and salience of trait inconsistency were manipulated. Subjects rated their liking for persons described by sets of 6 traits (3 high desirable and 3 low desirable). The high-desirable traits were consistent with the low-desirable traits in half the sets and inconsistent in the other half. Salience was manipulated by having some of the subjects rate the probability of association between high-desirable and low-desirable traits just before making their liking ratings, and by having other subjects make only the traditional liking ratings. As predicted, when ratings were made in the traditional manner, consistent and inconsistent stimulus persons were equally well-liked, but when salience was high, inconsistent stimulus persons were relatively disliked

Cognitive psychology · Impression · Impression formation · Perception · Salience (neuroscience) · Social perception · Stimulus (psychology) · Color perception and design · Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Psychology