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Emergence and maintenance in impression formation

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Date Issued:
1993
Summary:
Impression formation has in the past always been viewed as an instantaneous one time event. In this experiment impression formation was viewed as a process occurring over time. Subjects received descriptions of a hypothetical individual and then gave trait judgments indicating how they perceived this person. Subjects continued to receive information and make judgments through ten successive trials. Correlations were performed between seven major variables evaluated over the course of the trials. Results showed that the major work of impression formation occurs early in the process and that less is accomplished as time goes on. It was also found that an information processing point of view accommodated much of the results quite nicely.
Title: Emergence and maintenance in impression formation.
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Name(s): Weider, Alan Warren
Florida Atlantic University, Degree Grantor
Vallacher, Robin R., Thesis Advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1993
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 90 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Impression formation has in the past always been viewed as an instantaneous one time event. In this experiment impression formation was viewed as a process occurring over time. Subjects received descriptions of a hypothetical individual and then gave trait judgments indicating how they perceived this person. Subjects continued to receive information and make judgments through ten successive trials. Correlations were performed between seven major variables evaluated over the course of the trials. Results showed that the major work of impression formation occurs early in the process and that less is accomplished as time goes on. It was also found that an information processing point of view accommodated much of the results quite nicely.
Identifier: 14926 (digitool), FADT14926 (IID), fau:11708 (fedora)
Note(s): Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1993.
Subject(s): Human information processing
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