Attention promotes accurate impression formation
| Autor: | Francesca Capozzi, Lauren J. Human, Jelena Ristic |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male 050103 clinical psychology Adolescent Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject Impression formation 050109 social psychology Developmental psychology Young Adult Social cognition Humans Personality Attention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Eye-Tracking Technology Association (psychology) media_common Social perception 05 social sciences Readability Social Perception Visual Perception Eye tracking Female Interpersonal perception Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Personality. 88:544-554 |
| ISSN: | 1467-6494 0022-3506 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE An ability to form accurate impressions of others is vital for adaptive social behavior in humans. Here, we examined if attending to persons more is associated with greater accuracy in personality impressions. METHOD We asked 42 observers (36 females; mean age = 21 years, age range = 18-28; expected power = 0.96) to form personality impressions of unacquainted individuals (i.e., targets) from video interviews while their attentional behavior was assessed using eye tracking. We examined whether (a) attending more to targets benefited accuracy, (b) attending to specific body parts (e.g., face vs. body) drove this association, and (c) targets' ease of personality readability modulated these effects. RESULTS Paying more attention to a target was associated with forming more accurate personality impressions. Attention to the whole person contributed to this effect, with this association occurring independently of targets' ease of readability. CONCLUSIONS These findings show that attending more to a person is associated with increased accuracy and thus suggest that attention promotes social adaption by supporting accurate social perception. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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