Judgments of an actor's “power and ability to influence others”

Gollob, Harry F.; Rossman, Betty B.

doi:10.1016/s0022-1031(73)80004-6

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“…Precision is especially crucial for out-of-context predictor variables since measurement error here can bias results. In previous studies, the number of respondents per stimulus has ranged from 26 (Heise and Smith-Lovin, 1981) to 38 (Heise, 1969b;Gollob and Rossman, 1973). In this study, approximately 56 respondents rated each out-of-context stimulus and approximately 44 respondents rated each in-context stimulus.…”

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“…Gollob and Rossman (1973) raised the possibility of cross-dimension effects. They also hypothesized another interesting interaction effect in impression formation -an actor who does a bad act to a powerful person would be seen as relatively powerful, since he risks retaliation.…”

Section: Impression-formation Equationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The number of events considered in this study is 515, more than twice as large as any previous study. One important consequence of such a large corpus is that we are able to test with confidence for the replicability of certain interaction terms, like the B e O p effect in potency dynamics found by Gollob and Rossman (1973). Additionally, the corpus was factorially structured specifically to search for other interactions that might be involved in impression formation processes.…”

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Impressions from events*

Smith‐Lovin¹

1987

The Journal of Mathematical Sociology

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A large study of event stimuli developed new equations for describing how people react to events. Exploratory work found several new interaction terms affecting the impression formation process. To demonstrate the generality of the impression formation process across subject populations and study procedures, the results from the current study were compared to four others: two earlier studies on U.S. college undergraduates, a study of Belfast, Northern Ireland, high school students, and an Arabic study of well-educated Egyptians and Lebanese. Striking similarities in evaluation dynamics appeared in all studies. All English-speakers had similar potency and activity dynamics, while the Arabic study showed subtantial differences in the processing of these dimensions.

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Impressions from events*

Smith‐Lovin¹

1987

The Journal of Mathematical Sociology

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“…For example, B e · O p with a negative coefficient has an established theoretical interpretation (Gollob and Rossman 1973), has been replicated cross-culturally (Smith-Lovin 1987;Smith et al 1994), and functions to integrate displays of mercifulness, courageousness, sycophancy, and ruthlessness into actor evaluation (Heise 2007).…”

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“…The culture-as-consensus approach is illustrated by cross-cultural research on impression formation, or contextualization-how a social action normatively transforms individuals' feelings about interactants and behaviors from initial states to contextualized states (Gollob 1968;Gollob and Rossman 1973;MacKinnon 1985;Schröder 2011;Smith et al 1994;Smith-Lovin 1987). Impression-formation studies are the empirical basis of affect control theory (Heise 2007;Hoey et al 2013;MacKinnon 1994;Robinson and Smith-Lovin 2006), which mathematically predicts role behaviors, identities, attributions, and emotions, given verbal definitions of social situations and preceding actions.…”

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Determinants of normative processes: comparison of two empirical methods of specification

Heise

2014

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This study focused on how an action determines impressions of the individuals participating in the action, a substantive area with problematic data in the form of constricted variances, multicollinearity, and excessive influence of a few extreme cases. Stepwise regression often is used to determine which variables influence an outcome, but can lead to mis-specifications with problematic data. Thus this study compared two methods of discovering determinants of impression formation: stepwise regressions and analyses of variance (ANOVA). About three-quarters of the specifications obtained with one method also were obtained with the other method. The shared specifications especially related to stability of impressions, the effect of behavior morality, and consistency between evaluation of behaviors and evaluations of the participants in the action. Unique specifications from ANOVA were easier to interpret than those from stepwise regressions because stepwise regressions brought in more complex interactions than did ANOVA. With both methods, results from sub-samples constituted approximate subsets of results from larger samples, indicating that key effects can be found in small studies. However, compared with ANOVA, stepwise regressions with sub-samples brought in more effects that were absent in results from the full sample. The advantages of ANOVA derived from dichotomizing exogenous variables, which ameliorated data problems.

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Judgments of an actor's “power and ability to influence others”

Cited by 26 publications

References 9 publications

Impressions from events*

Impressions from events*

Determinants of normative processes: comparison of two empirical methods of specification

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