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Attention Allocation and Impression Formation
dc.contributor.authorHilton, James L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKlein, Jillen_US
dc.contributor.authorvon Hippel, Williamen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-14T13:56:38Z
dc.date.available2010-04-14T13:56:38Z
dc.date.issued1991en_US
dc.identifier.citationHilton, James; Klein, Jill; von Hippel, William (1991). "Attention Allocation and Impression Formation." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 17(5): 548-559. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/68735>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0146-1672en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/68735
dc.description.abstractAn experiment examined the attention allocation strategies that perceivers employ when they are confronted with expectancy-relevant information and the mediating roles that these strategies play in impression formation. A dichotic listening task was used to measure subjects' attention allocation strategies. Subjects monitored a control child in one ear, while in the other ear they heard a target child perform in a manner that was either initially consistent or inconsistent with their expectations. They then evaluated the target on a number of dimensions. Subjects who received initially inconsistent information from the target allocated more attention to him and became more cognitively complex in their final evaluations than subjects who received initially consistent information. Furthermore, the greater attention paid by these subjects led them to become more moderate in their evaluations of the target. The results are discussed in light of the person perception literature.en_US
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dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.titleAttention Allocation and Impression Formationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michiganen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michiganen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherOhio State Universityen_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0146167291175010en_US
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