Quest for accuracy in person perception
A matter of pragmatics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19600667 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William B Swann (0000-0002-8698-2994, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 457-477 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-295X • E-ISSN: 1939-1471 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0033-295x.91.4.457 |
| PMID | 6505116 |
| OpenAlex | W2067405851 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 151 |
| References cited | 84 |
Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Perception · Pragmatics · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Social and Intergroup Psychology
Seeing storms behind the clouds
Emotions that associate with uncertainty lead to structured ideation
Finally, someone who “gets” me! Multiracial people value others’ accuracy about their race
Was Walter Lippmann interested in stereotyping
Some Thoughts on Fourth-Generational Models of Social Cognition
Personal Narrative Revealing Self and Reflecting Other
The Looking Glass Self
Errors and mistakes
Gender differences in personality
Thin slices of expressive behavior as predictors of interpersonal consequences
Illusion and well-being
Do people know how others view them? An empirical and theoretical account
The correspondence bias
"The psychology of being "right
Good-looking people are not what we think
Identity negotiation
Thinking backward
Knowledge of identity and reputation
Reversing roles
Self-Concept Disconfirmation, Psychological Distress, and Marital Happiness
The Science of Compassionate Love
Self and Identity
The Effects of Interaction Goals on Person Perception
Congruence of Others' and Self-Judgments of Personality
Person Perception, Accuracy of
The Quest for Self-Insight
Interviewers' perceptions of person–organization fit and organizational selection decisions.
On the accuracy of personality judgment
Intuitive and deliberate judgments are based on common principles.
The relationship between memory and judgment depends on whether the judgment task is memory-based or on-line.
The Dynamic Self-Concept
Social Cognition and Social Perception
Lay Epistemic Theory in Social-Cognitive Psychology
Interpersonal Processes
Principles of Situation Research
Social perception and social reality
Confirmation, disconfirmation, and information in hypothesis testing.
Interpersonal Sensemaking and the Meaning of Work
Person
The Functional Theory of Counterfactual Thinking
Toward an Integration of Cognitive and Motivational Perspectives on Social Inference
Accurate Social Perception at Zero Acquaintance
Relational introspections with machines
Anger and social appraisal
Measurement of Self-Evaluative Motives
Measurement of Self-Evaluative Motives
Exploring the relationship between intercultural sensitivity and cognitive flexibility
Persona Perception Scale
Consensus and (lack of) accuracy in perceptions of avatar trustworthiness
Detecting children's true and false denials of wrongdoing
The Detrimental Effects of Ethical Incongruence in Teams
Factors that contribute to accurately perceiving anti-black racism and sexism overlap
Do We Know When Our Impressions of Others Are Valid? Evidence for Realistic Accuracy Awareness in First Impressions of Personality
Being Unpredictable
Getting to “Fair”
Psycho‐social Analysis of Black Teenage Pregnancies
Developmental differences in baserate estimates of social behaviors and attitudes
Cognitive categorization processes in performance evaluation
You cannot leave it at the office
Young Adolescent Boys and Dating Violence
Electronic Miscommunication and the Defamatory Sense
Verbal and nonverbal modality effects on impressions of political candidates
Varieties of Confirmation Bias
Social Perception, Social Stereotypes, and Teacher Expectations
Toward a histology of social behavior
Simple Heuristics in a Social World
Choosing an Identity
Putting gender into context
Accuracy in interpersonal perception
Perceiver-induced constraint
Abandoning unrealistic optimism
Dyad rapport and the accuracy of its judgment across situations
On cognitive busyness
Causal uncertainty beliefs and diagnostic information seeking
Misperceiving negotiation counterparts
Attitude and activity preference similarity
The preoccupational hazards of social life
Strategic failure in social interaction
Confidence and accuracy in person perception
Accuracy of behavioral predictions at zero acquaintance
Stereotype efficiency reconsidered
Supervisors' beliefs and subordinates' intrinsic motivation
The trouble of thinking
Seeing less and knowing more
Half a minute
Who knows what about a person? The self–other knowledge asymmetry (Soka) model
Consensus in personality judgments
Perceived versus meta-analytic effect sizes
Influence and inference
The Situational Eight DIAMONDS
Intimates as agents of social support
Through the looking glass clearly
An ecological perspective on integrating personality and social psychology
Who Am I Becoming? A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Self-Concept Change
Self‐Esteem, Self‐Serving Cognitions, and Health Risk Behavior
Knowing me, knowing you
Allure of negative feedback
The truth and bias model of judgment
The Return of the Repressed
Teacher Expectations and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Language and social knowledge
Experimenter effects in behavioral research
Environment and cognition.
A Cognitive -Attributional Analysis of Stereotyping1
Vision
Clinical versus statistical prediction
Verbal and Nonverbal Communication of Deception
Genesis of popular but erroneous psychodiagnostic observations.
Calibration of probabilities
Assortative mating with respect to physical characteristics
On Being Sane in Insane Places
Subjective probability
Current Issues in Attribution Theory and Research
Features of similarity.
Toward an ecological theory of social perception.
Toward a cognitive social learning reconceptualization of personality.
Illusory correlation as an obstacle to the use of valid psychodiagnostic signs.
Overconfidence in case-study judgments.
Assortative mating, or who marries whom?
Judgment under Uncertainty
On the psychology of prediction.
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Sanity, Madness and the Family
The Social Psychology of Groups
The psychology of interpersonal relations.
Communication of interpersonal evaluations.
Ratings of Projective Test Protocols as a Function of Degree of Inference
Schematic Bases of Social Information Processing
The Intuitive Psychologist And His Shortcomings
The role of the stigmatized person in affecting social relationships 1
Expectancy confirmation processes arising in the social interaction sequence
The rocky road from acts to dispositions
Pitfalls in data analysis and interpretation
Use of Matching Method in Measuring Reliability of Individual Clinician's Diagnostic Judgment
Pygmalion in the classroom
Liking, Selective Interaction, and Misperception in Congruent Interpersonal Relations
Assortative marriage for specific cognitive abilities in Korea
Breakups Before Marriage
A behavioral analysis of teacher expectancy effect
Name-calling and compliance
Illusory correlation and the maintenance of stereotypic beliefs
Attitudinal effects of mere exposure
Children's physical attractiveness and sex as determinants of adult punitiveness
Young children's stereotyping of facial attractiveness
Illusory correlation in interpersonal perception
Attributed intentions and informational selectivity
The self-fulfilling prophecy and interpersonal attraction
On the self-perpetuating nature of stereotypes about women and men
The attribution of attitudes
Attitude attribution when behavior is constrained
The nonverbal mediation of self-fulfilling prophecies in interracial interaction
Abstract and concrete data in the perseverance of social theories
Self-verification processes
Pygmalion and galatea
On the self-fulfilling nature of apparent sex differences in behavior
Information-gathering strategies in hypothesis-testing
Attitude bolstering when behavior is inconsistent with central attitudes
Behavioral confirmation in social interaction
Physical attractiveness and dating choice
Where leading questions can lead
Effectiveness of debriefing following deception experiments
The role of situational restrictiveness on self-fulfilling prophecies
Sex stereotypes and social judgment
Hypothesis-testing processes in social interaction
On translating beliefs into action
Acquiring self-knowledge
Perseverance of social theories
Social perception and interpersonal behavior
Social roles, social control, and biases in social-perception processes
Self-perceptions following social interaction
When our identities are mistaken
Threat of own prejudice and reverse discrimination in interracial situations
Expectations of choice behavior held by cooperators, competitors, and individualists across four classes of experimental games
Social interaction basis of cooperators' and competitors' beliefs about others
Effects of naturally induced teacher expectancies
Availability
Talent and Society
Implicit hypotheses and clinical predictions
Processes affecting scores on "understanding of others" and "assumed similarity
Belief in the law of small numbers
Studies of mental resemblance between husbands and wives and between friends
A test of interpersonal attraction predictions derived from balance theory
| Unique citing works | 151 |
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| Citations per year | 3,68 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2025 (41) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 131 |