SPONTANEOUS ACTIVATION OF FAMILIAR-OTHER EXEMPLARS AS POINTS OF REFERENCE IN JUDGMENTS ABOUT ACQUAINTANCES

• Authors: Karylowski J.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The experiment employed a modification of Craik & Tulving's (1975) incidental learning procedure to test recruitment of familiar-other exemplars as reference points in thinking about acquaintances. After performing an initial trait-rating task, subjects were unexpectedly asked to identify which targets were paired with each of the trait-adjectives used in that task. We assumed that if, in making judgments regarding Person X (target), the subject spontaneously activates a representation of Person Y (social reference point) then the subject may later incorrectly identify Person Y as the original target. Obtained pattern of target identification errors was consistent with the notion of a privileged status of familiar others as points of reference in thinking about less familiar persons.

Keywords

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ACQUAINTANCES

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee on Psychological Sciences PAS, Warsaw School of Social Psychology
• Journal: Psychological Studies
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 41-52
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Karylowski J.

• J. Karylowski, Szkola Wyzsza Psychologii Spolecznej, ul. Chodakowska 19/31, 03-815 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05PLAAAA0028680