The person-positivity bias
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6207628 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David O Sears (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 233-250 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Positivity, Karim Boulabiar, 2007 |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037//0022-3514.44.2.233 |
| OpenAlex | W4245745383 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 190 |
| References cited | 14 |
Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Cognitive and psychological constructs research · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Mental Health Research Topics · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology · Social Psychology
Good Dog
Negativity in political perception
Candidate Appraisal and Human Nature
The Etiology of Individual‐Targeted Intolerance
Overestimating Others' Willingness to Pay
Surge and Decline, Negative Voting, and the Midterm Loss Phenomenon
Illusion and well-being
Negativity and extremity biases in impression formation
Asymmetrical effects of positive and negative events
Excuses
Gender differences in communicative abstraction
Social judgment and social memory
Differential associations of knowing and liking with accuracy and positivity bias in person perception
Stereotyping by omission
The schema-driven chameleon
The dispositional basis of attitudes
Reasoning Chains
Extensions of the Lost Letter Technique to Divisive Issues of Creationism, Darwinism, Sex Education, and Gay and Lesbian Affiliations
Affiliation, Acceptance, and Belonging
Consciousness and Automatic Evaluation
Immigration and the American Ethos
The functional basis of face evaluation
Dual-Process Models in Social and Cognitive Psychology
First Impressions
In Search of East Asian Self-Enhancement
It's for Your Own Good
The Imagined Contact Hypothesis
Social Projection to Ingroups and Outgroups
Effects of negative political advertising on the political process
Beliefs About the True Self Explain Asymmetries Based on Moral Judgment
A Primer on Unrealistic Optimism
Retracted
Heading Right and Judging Harsher
Candidate Image in Election Campaigns
Perceived Economic Contributions Increase Positivity Toward Undocumented Immigrants
More positive or More Extreme? A Meta-Analysis of Mode Differences in Response Choice
The early negative bias of social semantics
The More Positive Evaluation of Men Than Women on the Gender-Stereotyped Traits
Affiliation, Community Size, and Person-Posittvtty Effect in Return of Lost Letters
Emotion
Differences in Lost Letter Responses from a Seaside City
Evidence and Uncertainty in Subjective Prediction
Affiliation, Community Size, and Person-Positivity Effect in Return of Lost Letters
Affect and Face Perception
Extensions of the Lost Letter Technique to Divisive Issues of Creationism, Darwinism, Sex Education, and Gay and Lesbian Affiliations
The Impact of Comparative Moral Superiority on Protagonist Appeal
Perceptions of China’s soft power
Deportation in the Trump Era
Does Influencer–Follower Relationship Matter? Exploring How Relationship Norms and Influencer–Product Congruence Affect Advertising Effectiveness across Product Categories
Don’t Throw the Frame Out With the Bathwater
Empathy With Muslim Victims of Discrimination
So Close and Yet So Far
“Their privacy matters too!” A self-other calculus perspective on disclosure of others’ information on social media
Attitude Formation in More- and Less-Complex Social Environments
My True Self is Better Than Yours
The Nature of Islamophobia
The Context of Immigrant Reception in the American South
Bridging the divide
Out of context
The effects of family and community in US immigration news
Political Trust and Negative Campaigns
The Late Leader”
Partisan Schemata in Biased Interpretation of Electoral Proposals and Political Candidate Evaluation
Gender and social belonging predict evaluation of ambiguous academic feedback
A quartered typology of welfare attitudes
Motivated Entitativity
Differential Evaluation of Crossed Category Groups
Perceptions of geopolitical crises by post-millennials in Central and Eastern Europe
IVR and web administration in structured interviews utilizing rating scales
Pills, Rebel Yells, and Red Dye Spills
Effects of regular and joke dog whistles on perceptions of political candidates
Inconsistency and uncertainty in multi‐attribute judgment of human performance
Prescreening of choice options in ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ decision‐making tasks
Reality and Perception
The Misandry Myth
If She’s a Feminist it Must Not be Discrimination
Evaluative expectations and the gender schema
Intergenerational transmission of pro-environmental behaviors
Affect, Not Ideology
Ambiguity and Self-Evaluation
Warmth and Competence as Universal Dimensions of Social Perception
Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination at the seam between the centuries
Personalizing Politics
Exemplar-based model of social judgment
Less is more
On the updating of spontaneous impressions
Self-image bias in person perception
Valence asymmetries in attitude ambivalence
Migrants, Caravans, and the Impact of News Photos on Immigration Attitudes
Distributing prejudice unequally
Egocentric definitions of traits and abilities in social judgment
Individual-group discontinuity as a function of fear and greed
Automatic vigilance
The "Barnum effect" revisited
Revising disrupted impressions through conversation
The affect system has parallel and integrative processing components
Predicting persons' versus a person's goodness
"Feeling "holier than thou
Ambiguity and self-evaluation
In-group-out-group differences in the perceived efficacy of coercion and conciliation in resolving social conflict
The pollyanna hypothesis
The psychology of interpersonal relations.
The attraction paradigm
Measurement and generality of response dispositions in person perception1
Attitudes vs. Actions
Two Dimensions of Cohesiveness in Small Groups
Does everybody like a liker
A negativity bias in interpersonal evaluation
Attribution at the wire
Cognitive links between economic grievances and political responses
The "Positivity Bias" in Evaluations of Public Figures
Coming to like obnoxious people when we must live with them
The perception of self and others
Processes affecting scores on "understanding of others" and "assumed similarity
| Unique citing works | 190 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,32 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2026 (45) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 173 |