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The additive nature of chronic and temporary sources of construct accessibility.
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This article is published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.The article was published on 1986-05-01. It has received 548 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Subliminal stimuli & Impression formation.read more
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Attitude Importance and Attitude Accessibility
TL;DR: The authors found that people consider personally important attitudes to be more powerful determinants of perceptions of others' attitudes, of liking of others, and of social behavior than unimportant attitudes are, and that important attitudes may be more accessible in memory and may therefore come to mind more frequently in the course of social perception.
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Heuristics and Biases: When Predictions Fail: The Dilemma of Unrealistic Optimism
David A. Armor,Shelley E. Taylor +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review research on optimistic biases in personal predictions and address the question of how people can maintain these biases when doing so would seem to be maladaptive.
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A Meta-Analysis of Priming Effects on Impression Formation Supporting a General Model of Informational Biases:
TL;DR: A general model of how irrelevant information can bias judgments is proposed, detailing when and why assimilation and contrast effects result from default and corrective processes.
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An Experimental Investigation of the Joint Effects of Advertising and Peers on Adolescents' Beliefs and Intentions about Cigarette Consumption
TL;DR: The authors found that an antismoking advertisement shown in conjunction with cigarette advertising made salient negative smoker stereotypes, evoked unfavorable thoughts about peers shown smoking, and prevented cigarette advertising from promoting smoking.
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Behaviour variability and the Situated Focus Theory of Power
TL;DR: In this paper, the Situated Focus Theory of Power is proposed to explain the greater variability in the behaviour and judgements of powerful compared to powerless individuals. But, it does not consider the effect of external factors such as motivation, inner experiences, and affordances on the responses of powerful individuals.
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The psychology of personal constructs
TL;DR: In this paper, a reissue of George Kelly's classic work Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) is presented. And the implications of PCP for clinical practice are discussed. But the authors do not discuss the authorship of the book.
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Controlled and Automatic Human Information Processing: 1. Detection, Search, and Attention.
TL;DR: A series of studies using both reaction time and accuracy measures is presented, which traces these concepts in the form of automatic detection and controlled, search through the areas of detection, search, and attention and resolves a number of apparent conflicts in the literature.
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Self-schemata and processing information about the self.
TL;DR: In this article, the role of schemata in processing information about the self is examined by linking self-schemata to a number of specific empirical referents, and the relationship of self-schemeata to cross-situational consistency in behavior is discussed.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory
TL;DR: The authors investigated the possibility that assessment of confidence is biased by attempts to justify one's chosen answer and disregarding evidence contradicting it, and found that only the listing of contradicting reasons improved the appropriateness of confidence.