Thinking about persons.

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Extended a previous exploration of impression formation conducted by the 1st author (1946) by having male and female college students read brief descriptions of a person, in the form of 2 disposition terms. Some of the paired attributes were chosen to be congruent; other pairs were discordant or apparently antagonistic. The task was to describe the person briefly and to indicate how the 2 attributes might be related. The discrepancies were nearly always readily resolved. Several principal modes of resolution of perceived discrepancies and several rules of domination (or subordination) of 1 disposition to another emerged from the findings, thus clarifying some ways in which the unity of an impression is achieved. Findings are at variance with assumptions of many accounts of impression formation that stress simple forms of homogeneity. (5 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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