What we know about people shapes the inferences we make about their personalities
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2015-05-31Tipo de documento
articleÁrea/s de conocimiento
PsicologíaMateria/s Unesco
6111.03 Desarrollo de la PersonalidadResumen
The ability to form impressions allows making inferences about others based on minimal, swift
and automatic interactions. The verbal context (what we Know about people) could play an
important role in this process. An experiment was conducted involving 95 individuals who were
asked to make inferences on the personality and emotionality perceived in a mixed facial
expression. Five positive words and five negative ones were used to establish the levels of the
variable referred to as verbal context (negative and positive). The results revealed the person was
attributed greater sociability when an individual had positive information on the person
producing the facial expression. What we know about other people has a modulating effect on
some aspect of the personality perceived through