Component ratings in impression formation

Gender differences in impression formation

This paper aims to highlight the differences between men and women regarding impression formation. It is based on secondary analysis of the data gathered in two previous experiments with similar conditions. However, the hypotheses formulated within this study have not been tested before. The current analysis was conducted on 86 participants, 47 males and 39 females. Their ages ranged between 15...

Collaborative Impression Formation and Recall of Impression-relevant Information

The present research examines how the match between encoding and recall contexts influences recall performance. Memory research has shown that recall performance can be impaired when a subset of the studied stimuli is presented at recall (the part-set cuing effect) or when the recall process is carried out in a collaborative way (collaborative inhibition effect). In 4 experiments we manipulated...

Impression formation and cooperative behavior

Two studies investigated how behavioral information about the morality or intelligence of another person in ̄uences impressions, expectations of cooperative behavior, and own cooperation in a mixed-motive interdependence situation. Consistent with the moralityimportance hypothesis, results revealed that morality information in ̄uenced impressions, expectations of other's cooperative behavior, as ...

Distributional Theories of Impression Formation

This paper examines theories of impression formation which represent stimulus information as distributions on subjective dimensions rather than points along a continuum. These theories explain why unfavorable information often overrides favorable information. Subjects were asked to imagine hypothetical persons described by single adjectives or adjective combinations and to estimate the probabil...

Impression formation in online peer production