Domain specific effects of central traits in impression formation.
Psychol Rep
; 98(3): 885-91, 2006 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-16933691
ABSTRACT
In a procedure similar to that used in Asch's classic studies in 1946, 125 college students (54 men and 71 women, Mage=20.9 yr., SD=4.8) rated their impression of a hypothetical man or woman who was described by seven stimulus traits. This list included one of four central traits which appeared in the middle of the list warm, cold, serious, or foolish. The dependent measures were factor scores derived from participants' ratings of 20 traits on social desirability and intellectual desirability. As hypothesized, warm and cold, prototypes of social desirability and undesirability, were associated with judgments of social but not intellectual desirability, and serious and foolish, prototypes of intellectual desirability and undesirability, were associated with judgments of intellectual but not social desirability. In addition, there was evidence of a subtle sex bias ratings of "foolish" women were higher on social desirability than ratings of "foolish" men.
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Assunto principal:
Desejabilidade Social
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Atitude
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2006
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Article