Forming impressions of personality. A replication and review of Asch's (1946) evidence for a primacy-of-warmth effect in impression formation.

Autor/inn/en	Nauts, Sanne; Langner, Oliver; Huijsmans, Inge; Vonk, Roos; Wigboldus, Daniël
Titel	Forming impressions of personality. A replication and review of Asch's (1946) evidence for a primacy-of-warmth effect in impression formation.
Quelle	In: Social psychology, 45 (2014) 3, S. 153-163Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1864-9335; 2151-2590
DOI	10.1027/1864-9335/a000179
Schlagwörter	Experimentelle Forschung; Eindruck; Persönlichkeit; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Psychologie; Stimulation (Psy); Experiment; Persönlichkeit; Psychologie; Eindruck; Replikation; Vorbereitung; Experiment; Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Replikation; Vorbereitung
Abstract	Solomon E. Asch's seminal research on "Forming Impressions of Personality" (1946) has widely been cited as providing evidence for a primacy-of-warmth effect, suggesting that warmth-related judgments have a stronger influence on impressions of personality than competence-related judgments (e.g., Fiske, Cuddy, & Glick, 2007; Wojciszke, 2005). Because this effect does not fit with S. E. Asch's Gestalt-view on impression formation and does not readily follow from the data presented in his original paper, the goal of the present study was to critically examine and replicate the studies of S. E. Asch's paper that are most relevant to the primacy-of-warmth effect. Results revealed no evidence for a primacy-of-warmth effect. Instead, the role of warmth was highly context dependent, and competence was at least as important in shaping impressions as warmth. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2016/2