Research Methods and Research Questions for the Study of Person-Perception in Adult Development

There is a need to expand the scope of person-perception research in adulthood beyond the study of attitudes toward aging and the aged. Expanding upon Thomae’s general argument that we need to examine the perception of change and the influence of expectations on this perceptual process, three general questions are developed. These questions concern the identification of the dimensions employed by adults in the processes of interpersonal perception, developmental changes in the content of expectations, and developmental changes in the role expectations play in influencing behavior. Two conceptual approaches to person-perception, implicit personality theory and the concept of prototypicality, are explored as sources of methods and theory in the study of these questions

Argument (complex analysis) · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Identification (biology) · Interpersonal communication · Perception · Personality · Scope (computer science) · Aging and Gerontology Research · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology

• Sex differences in perception of aging among the Nigerian elderly

  Open Access•Philip O Sijuwade•Social Behavior and Personality…•1991

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