Prototype matching
A strategy for social decision making
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6202332 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paula M Niedenthal (0000-0003-0471-5508, University of Michigan), Nancy Cantor, John F Kihlstrom (0000-0002-3481-6433) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 575-584 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.48.3.575 |
| PMID | 3989662 |
| OpenAlex | W2066920650 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 44 |
| References cited | 24 |
College students responded to a series of questionnaires while they were in the process of selecting housing from a choice of seven available options for the coming fall. Questionnaires concerned their self-concepts, their housing prototypes, their preferences in housing, and their goals in housing selection. Overall analyses of the self-to-prototype matching strategy suggest that most students indeed prefer the type of housing for which their prototype of the "representative" resident most closely matches their self-perceptions. More important, we obtained individual differences in attention to self-fit in situations. Of individuals who reported that they had interpersonal goals in the housing selection task, those who reported that many personality characteristics (both positive and negative) were untrue of self were more systematic in their use of the self-to-prototype matching rule, this was also true of low self-monitors. Neither pattern of individual differences obtained for students with practical goals in the housing decision
Interpersonal communication · Interpersonal relationship · Management · Matching (statistics) · Perception · Personality · Process (computing) · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Task (project management) · Applied Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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Music and Adolescent Identity
Does Doing Good Always Lead to Doing Better? Consumer Reactions to Corporate Social Responsibility
Do Women Choose Different Jobs from Men? Mechanisms of Application Segregation in the Market for Managerial Workers
You Are What They Eat
A Social Comparison Account of Gossip
Prototypes of Victims of Workplace Harassment
What is the Image of the “Typical Cancer Patient”? The View of Physicians
What does character education mean to character education experts? A prototype analysis of expert opinions
Some Key Issues in the Evaluation of Character Education
It is not a vacation of leisure
Existential Ennui
Explaining housing preference and choice
Warmth portrayals to recruit students into science majors
Do adolescents’ self-concepts moderate the relationship between STEM stereotypes and motivation
That’s not me
Enduring Influence of Stereotypical Computer Science Role Models on Women’s Academic Aspirations
Explaining Underrepresentation
Do Gender Differences in Perceived Prototypical Computer Scientists and Engineers Contribute to Gender Gaps in Computer Science and Engineering
Single-Sex School Girls Outperform Girls Attending a Co-Educative School in Mental Rotation Accuracy
‘I'm Not Interested in Computers’
Ambient belonging
The importance of music to adolescents
A new look at motivated inference
Life tasks, self-concept ideals, and cognitive strategies in a life transition
The dynamic interplay between perceived true self-knowledge and decision satisfaction
Developing independence in a life transition
Possible self-complexity and affective reactions to goal-relevant evaluation
An Unwillingness to Act
Look at me—I am flying
Manipulating Self-Complexity with Communication Role Assignment
Factors Influencing Achievement in Undergraduate Social Science Research Methods Courses
Moral prototypes and moral behavior
Is There an Inherent Mismatch Between How Black and White Students Expect to Succeed in College and What Their Colleges Expect from Them
The “Second Half” of Student Integration
Messages about brilliance undermine women's interest in educational and professional opportunities
Is an Independent Self a Requisite for Asian Immigrants' Psychological Well-Being in the U.S.? The Case of Korean Americans
Exploring substance use normalization among adolescents
Young adults' images of abstaining and drinking
Hiring and Intra-occupational Gender Segregation in Software Engineering
Goal Types, Compliance-Gaining and Locus of Control
Self-Construals, Coping, and Stress in Cross-Cultural Adaptation
Shifting Signals to Help Health
The Self and social life
Client-Centered Therapy
Self-Monitoring Processes
A prototype analysis of psychological situations
On predicting some of the people some of the time
Self-Concept Discrepancy Theory
Prototypes in Person Perception
Features of similarity.
Personality, Cognition and Social Interaction
Self‐knowledge
The Link Between Identity and Role Performance
The Self
Acting on one's attitudes
Responses to evaluation as a function of initial self-perceptions
Acquiring self-knowledge
Predicting behavioral consistency from an individual's perception of situational similarities
Encoding of personal information
Self-schemata and processing information about the self
Choosing friends as activity partners
Behavioral appropriateness and situational constraint as dimensions of social behavior
Social interaction basis of cooperators' and competitors' beliefs about others
Person categories and social perception
The self-concept revisited
Self-monitoring of expressive behavior
| Unique citing works | 44 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2025 (40) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |