Impression order effects as a function of the personal relevance of the object of description

Influence of the Order of Provided Information on the First Impression

“…According to Kopetz and Kruglanski (2008) assumption about primacy effect and the importance of the order had not been tested empirically. Indeed, starting from Asch's classic study, the influence of order on social impression has widely been studied in social psychology (Brink, 1974;Dreben, Fiske, & Hastie, 1979;Kardes & Herr, 1990;Nauts et al, 2014), although this did not happen in relationship to stereotypic and individuating mode of processing. Impression formation has also been studied from different perspectives, such as information integration problem (Gollin, 1954), or constraining the meaning of stereotype by provided individuating information (Baron et al, 1995;Beckett & Park, 1995;Kunda & Sherman-Williams, 1993;Locksley et al, 1980;Locksley et al, 1982;Mettrick & Cowan, 1996;Quinn, Mason, & Macrae, 2009), or integration of contradictory traits or stereotypes (Casselden & Hampson, 1990;Hastie, Schroeder, & Weber, 1990) and so on, though there is no clear study that would directly test the influence of primacy on the dominance of stereotypic and individuating information (or processing).…”

Tests of a conditioning hypothesis with adjective combinations.

“…It also differs from the attempt by the Yale group to develop attitude theory on a framework of traditional verbal learning, an attempt that has not been very successful (Anderson, 1973;McGuire, 1969, p. 266). One basic difficulty for the verbal learning approach is that meanings appear to be stored in a different memory system than the words themselves (Anderson .& Hubert, 1963;Brink, 1974;Greenwald, 1968;Rywick & Schaye, 1974). Consequently, there is no direct relation between the learning of the attitudes and the learning of the verbal materials per se.…”