The recall of information about persons and groups

Wyer, Robert S.; Gordon, Sallie E.

doi:10.1016/0022-1031(82)90047-6

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“…First, while previous research on memory-based judgment formation has focused on person impressions (e.g., Anderson & Hubert, 1963;Carlston, 1980;Cohen, 1983;Hamilton et al, 1980;Wyer & Gordon, 1982), the present findings suggest that the same processes that mediate person impressions may mediate evaluations of a behavior toward this person. That is, when reporting their attitude toward performing a behavior, subjects apparently retrieve a stored behavioral attitude (or its implications) and use this as a basis for their later behavioral judgment.…”

Section: Attitude Judgmentsmentioning

confidence: 53%

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Attitude processing strategies

Loken

1984

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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Several models of memory-based attitude processing were examined in a laboratory experiment. After receiving stimulus information with implications for either one or both of two attitudes (toward a person and toward a behavior with respect to this person), subjects were asked to recall the information and to report their attitudes. Information was received under instructions to form only one of these two attitudes. Consistent with past research, information was subsequently better recalled when it had implications for the attitude being evaluated than when it did not. However, null effects of the instructional set on reported attitudes suggested that subjects relied on their memory-for-attitude (or additional implications) rather than on memory-for-facts. The present findings extend the generality of this conclusion to behavioral attitudes, large stimulus sets, and heterogeneous stimulus items. Low correlations between recalled stimuli and reported attitudes also supported a memory-for-attitude model. However, correlations between behavioral attitudes and recall of behavioral outcomes increased under certain conditions. Results are discussed in relation to recent findings in person perception research.

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Section: Attitude Judgmentsmentioning

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“…A great deal of research in social and cognitive psychology supports this conclusion (e.g., Bower, 1970;Hamilton, Katz, & Leirer, 1980;Lingle, Geva, Ostrom, Leippe, & Baumgardner, 1979;Wyer & Gordon, 1982;Zadny & Gerard, 1974). However, the manner in which recalled information is used to form…”

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Attitude processing strategies

Loken

1984

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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“…As some previous studies have shown, the evaluative (likeable or unlikeable) theme may be used to organize a series of person information especially under the instruction to form an impression (Hartwick, 1979;Wyer & Gordon, 1982. Moreover, Keenan and Baillet (1980), Ferguson, Rule, and Carlston (1983) demonstrated that a series of information about a wellliked other were highly organized compared to those about a disliked or a neutral other.…”

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The organizing process of information and the role of affect in person memory

Ikegami

1989

Jpn. Psychol. Res

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The present study investigates how pieces of person information are incorporated into the developing impression (person-schema) and how interpersonal affect influences the organizing process in person memory. Sixteen undergraduate and graduate students were asked to study first a set of positive or negative trait descriptions ascribed to an imaginary person. Then they studied a list of behavioral descriptions of the person under the instruction to rate each behavior for the degree of congruency with their currently emerging impression. Analysis of the congruency ratings and recall performances revealed that the initial impression was modified little by little through the interaction with the subsequent information, and that subjective congruency of information with the emerging impression facilitated the recall process. It was also found that information about positive others was incorporated more actively into the impression than about negative others.

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“…situation, what behaviors are and are not appropriate, and which elements of the situation are important to notice and remember (Fiske & Taylor;Wyer & Gordon, 1982). When one person's behavior (e.g., the job candidate's) violates a schema held by another (e.g., the recruiter), their expectations also are violated.…”

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Cultural Impressions of Professionalism

Sanchez-Burks

2006

SSRN Journal

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The recall of information about persons and groups

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