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...

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...

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 ...

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...

In this article we analyzed the information processing that underlies nonconscious impression formation. In the first experiment, the nonconscious activation of the impression formation goal led to a faster analysis of the trait implications of behaviors, compared with a control group. In Experiment 2, participants who were nonconsciously primed with an impression formation goal were more likel...