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Forming impressions of personality.
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This article is published in Journal of Abnormal Psychology.The article was published on 1946-07-01. It has received 2859 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Personality disorders & Personality.read more
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A model of (often mixed) stereotype content: Competence and warmth respectively follow from perceived status and competition.
TL;DR: Contrary to antipathy models, 2 dimensions mattered, and many stereotypes were mixed, either pitying (low competence, high warmth subordinates) or envying (high competence, low warmth competitors).
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Biased Assimilation and Attitude Polarization: The Effects of Prior Theories on Subsequently Considered Evidence
TL;DR: In this paper, subjects supporting and opposing capital punishment were exposed to two purported studies, one seemingly confirming and one seemingly disconfirming their existing beliefs about the deterrent efficacy of the death penalty.
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The Intuitive Psychologist And His Shortcomings: Distortions in the Attribution Process1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the shortcomings of intuitive psychologists and the sources of bias in their attempts at understanding, predicting, and controlling the events that unfold around them, and explored the logical or rational schemata employed by intuitive psychologists.
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Mood and judgment: the affect infusion model (AIM).
TL;DR: A new integrative theory, the affect infusion model (AIM), is proposed as a comprehensive explanation of these effects of affective states in social judgments, and predicts that judgments requiring heuristic or substantive processing are more likely to be infused by affect than are direct access or motivated judgments.
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Negativity Bias, Negativity Dominance, and Contagion
Paul Rozin,Edward B. Royzman +1 more
TL;DR: The authors hypothesize that there is a general bias, based on both innate predispositions and experience, in animals and humans to give greater weight to negative entities (e.g., events, objects, personal traits).
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Personality: A Psychological Interpretation
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A constant error in psychological ratings.
TL;DR: In a study made in 1915 of employees of two large industrial corporations, it appeared that the estimates of the same man in a number of different traits such as intelligence, industry, technical skill, reliability, etc., etc, were very highly correlated and very evenly correlated.
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Studies in the Principles of Judgments and Attitudes: II. Determination of Judgments by Group and by Ego Standards
TL;DR: In this paper, the determination of judgments by group and ego standards was studied in the context of the principles of judgements and attitudes of individuals and groups. But they did not consider the role of ego standards.