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Impression Forming (Physical Appearance (Park (1986) since physical…
Impression Forming
Physical Appearance
Park (1986) since physical appearance is often the first information we have about people, it is very influential in first impressions. Primacy effects are influential in enduring impressions as shown by Asch (1964)
Dion et al (1972) stated that the first things we judge about a person is whether they're physically attractive or not. Found that people who are attractive are seen as being 'good'.
Gillath, Bahns, Ge, and Crandall (2012) asked ppts to judge the characteristics of the owner of a shoe. Various dimension ratings correlated with owner's personal characteristics
Stereotypes
Haire and Grune (1950) found that people had little difficulty in composing a paragraph describing a 'working man' from stereotype-consistent information, but enormous difficulty incorporating one piece of stereotype-inconsistent information - that the man was intelligent
Participants ignored the information, distorted it, took a very long time and even promoted the man from worker to supervisor
Impressions of people are strongly influenced by widely shared assumptions about the personalities, attitudes and behaviours of people based on group membership. e.g. nationality, race, ethnicity, sex, gender
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Social Judgeability
Leyens, Yzerbyt and Schadron (1992) people are unlikely to judge those who have been deemed not socially judgeable i.e. social rules proscribe making judgements
Positivity vs Negativity
Fiske (1980) provides evidence for perceptual bias towards negative stimuli/information. Bias towards negative information is shown int he amount of perceptual attention given to the information.
Found two behavioural dimensions after informal pretesting, each of which could be varied across four levels of likeability, the minimum number of levels necessary to independently vary valence and extremity.
Each stimulus person was engaged in 8 behaviours and 30 pain undergraduate subjects were instructed to consider each captioned slide independently.
Measured looking time by asking subjects to look at the slide until they felt like they understood it and when they were ready to rate it, to press a button.
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