The moment of tenure and the moment of truth: when it pays to be aware of recency effects in social judgements

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted on the influence exerted by the order of diagnostic information presentation during impression formation. Subjects were asked to rate six persons on measures of honesty and six on measures of intelligence. Internal inconsistencywas maintained for the descriptions of the target persons through combinations of high and low diagnosticity behaviors. Higher diagnosticity traits were presented first for half of the subjects and last for the remaining half. Results revealed a recency effect which increased with behavior extremity.

Impression formation (Psychology)

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Shared realities: social influence and stimulus memory

Article Abstract:

Two studies on subjects' recall for story facts, before and after being shown and told about a bogus response list, show that attention paid to others' bogus responses can affect subjects' recall for story facts. The memory responses on the story cued recall test sometimes change from their initial responses. These changes usually correspond to the most frequent bogus responses. This is frequent when there is agreement among the bogus responses and less frequent when there is high memorability.

Psychological aspects

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Ordering our world: the quest for traces of temporal organization in autobiographical memory

Article Abstract:

The cognition of autobiographic events in relation to the life era of happening of these events is experimentally investigated. The order judgments of between era events are found to be rapid than the within-era events.

United States, Science & research, Analysis, Judgment, Judgment (Psychology), Event history analysis, Episodic memory, Report, Recency effect (Memory)

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