Familiar others as reference points in judgments of traits

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

Abstracts

EN

Experiment provided evidence for the recruitment of social exemplars as reference points in judgments of traits. Making a judgment regarding one target-person facilitated making the same judgment regarding the other. As predicted this was more the case when the two targets were of the same sex and similar age (category-specific priming) then when they were not (cross-category priming). Both the category-specific and the cross-category priming effects appeared less consistently for self than for other social exemplars. Also, consistently with our model, both effects were facilitated by focusing on attribute-centered rather than on person-centered mental representations, particularly when the target of the priming task was relatively unfamiliar and the target of the test task was highly familiar.

Keywords

EN

JUDGMENTS OF TRAITS

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 36
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 89-97
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Karylowski J. J.

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

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01763809