Judging situations: on the effortful process of taking dispositional information into account

Article Abstract:

The process by which perceivers take dispositional information into account when drawing a situational inference requires effort. Perceivers may also require this effort to think about alternatives. The subjects in an experiment viewed a silent videotape of an anxious interviewee to diagnose the anxiety caused by the interview topic. While calm or anxious information was given about the interviewees personality, only half the participants were cognitively busy. Only the nonbusy participants were able to use information about the interviewees disposition while drawing situational inferences.

Physiological aspects, Judgment, Judgment (Psychology), Personality and situation, Situation-personality interaction

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Predicting the display of personality traits: actor/observer differences in the accessibility and utilization of evidence

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The determinants of predictive confidence were analyzed to identify the differences between representations of the self and representations of friends. The determinants include situation specificity and trait-related behaviors' accessible memories. Results show that self-predictors were consistent with a normative model than friend-predictors. Results also indicate that friend-schemata are less contextually differentiated than self-schemata.

Personality (Psychology)

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Individual differences in the spontaneous construal of behaviour: idiocentrism and the automatization of the trait inference process

Article Abstract:

Research shows that the personality of the individual plays an important role in determining spontaneous inferences. Evidence indicates that social perception is not wholly determined by spontaneous trait inference (STI). It seems that people apply STI deliberately because they have found them to be beneficial in social interaction. The priming of trait-cued recall in individuals with a high level of idiocentrism is analysed.

Social perception, Personality traits

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