The Organization of Social Information.

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the manner in which people cognitively organize person information when they encounter several facts about each of several persons. The traditional assumption made in social psychology that information is always organized according to persons is challenged and refuted. A series of experiments is reported that uses clustering in free recall as the measure of cognitive organization. It was found that prior familiarity with the stimulus persons strongly affected the extent to which social information was organized by persons. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA078717

Entities

People

  • David D. Simpson
  • John B. Pryor
  • Thomas M. Ostrom

Organizations

  • Ohio State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Content Addressable Memory
  • Educational Psychology
  • Human Resources
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Minority Groups
  • Naval Training
  • New York
  • Observers
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Public Administration
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • Training
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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