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| Research article summary (published 30 Oct 2002): |
Spontaneous trait inferences are bound to actors' faces: evidence from a false recognition paradigm.
Full Abstract
A false recognition paradigm showed that spontaneous trait inferences (STIs) are bound to the person performing a trait-implying behavior. In 6 experiments, participants memorized faces and behavioral sentences. When faces were paired with implied traits in a recognition test, participants falsely recognized these traits more often than unrelated traits paired with the same faces or the same traits paired with familiar faces. The effect was obtained for a large set of behaviors (120). each presented for 5 s, and for behaviors that participants did not subsequently recognize or recall. Antonyms of the implied traits were falsely recognized less often than unrelated traits, suggesting that STIs have extended implications. Explicit person-trait judgments predicted both false recognition and response times for implied traits.
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Author/s: Todorov, Alexander (A); Uleman, James S (JS);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, New York University, USA. atodorov@princeton.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Journal of personality and social psychology (J Pers Soc Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Nov; vol 83 (issue 5) : pp 1051-65
Dates: Created 2002/11/05; Completed 2003/02/21; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12416911, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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