Rebound effects in impression formation: Assimilation and contrast effects following thought suppression
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The impressions of an ambiguous target person formed by the participants, are a significant function of the specific personality traits they are instructed to avoid thinking about. The suppression effects depend on the effort exerted by participants in interpreting the target person's behavior. Participants tend to infer that the target person possesses the very trait that they have earlier tried to avoid thinking about, when their cognitive resources are taxed. However, they try not to characterize the person with that trait, when impressions are formed leisurely.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-1031
Year: 1996
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Do young children use the discounting principle?
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Young children's attributional processes were examined in two experiments. The discounting principle, wherein a cause for a specific event is discounted when other possible causes exist for that event to happen, is used to test children's reasoning. Results suggested that children use their social knowledge of events to attribute the happening of a particular effect. Also, when tested appropriately, children do use the discounting principle to justify an event's happening.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-1031
Year: 1992
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Promised reward and creativity: effects of prior experience
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A study was conducted to analyze how divergent-thinking training in preadolescent schoolchildren influences subsequent creativity for promised reward in a novel task administered by different individuals. Results indicated that creativity is increased by the discrimination of a positive relationship between reward and new performance. In addition, extrinsic motivation resulting from the expectation of reward for creative performance may support intrinsic motivation.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-1031
Year: 1999
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