Differences
in the formation of perceived "warm" and "cold" personality
impressions by the influences of verbal cue traits and object-person
gestures
P.O. Peretti |
Various
studies have suggested the importance of verbal cue traits in the
perceiver's consideration of other's personality. Yet, other literature
suggests gestures as being of prime importance in the formation of
personality impressions. The present paper reports an attempt to:
(1) separate the Ss into different groups to find out any differences
of response which might result; (2) use sequential ordering of verbal
cue traits and object-person gestures in four ways to find out the
varied influences on personality impressions; and (3) determine which
of the stimuli seems more relevant in Ss' formations of personality
impressions. Results indicated that the different groups of Ss varied
their responses to the stimuli; that either verbal cue traits or
object-person gestures may be more significant in the formation of
certain impressions depending on the "correct" or "incorrect" presentation;
and that verbal cue traits seem more salient when the Ss have little
information about the object-person, but, as they are provided with
additional data, then the gestures tend to become at least as important
in their consideration of personality impressions as the verbal cues.
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