The Role of Persons as Organizing Categories in Social Cognition.

Abstract

Five studies investigated the factors that cause persons to emerge as organizing categories during the initial classifcation of social information about individuals in groups. Pre-integration categorization processes were studied using a speeded classification procedure. The collective evidence established that person discriminability and strength of the person-descriptor association are important determinents of the categorization process. These findings emerged for both generic knowledge structures and newly developed person categories.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA115571

Entities

People

  • John B. Pryor
  • Linda Tyner
  • Mark Mitchell

Organizations

  • Ohio State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Business Administration
  • Combinatorial Analysis
  • Education
  • Health Services
  • Information Processing
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Personality
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Uss Carl Vinson

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.