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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 29, No. 10, 1328-1338 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167203254611

An On-Line Look at Automatic Contrast and Correction of Behavior Categorizations and Dispositional Inferences

Stephanie J. Tobin

Ohio State University, tobin.31{at}osu.edu

Gifford Weary

Ohio State University, weary.1{at}osu.edu

The current study examined on-line behavior recategorization as a mechanism underlying corrections for contextual influences in dispositional inferences. After watching an initial comparison video that portrayed either a successful or unsuccessful performance on a spatial ability task, cognitive load and no load participants watched and made real-time ratings of a target performance. The comparison video was expected to exert a contrastive influence on participants' automatic impressions of the performance (behavior categorizations) and the child's intelligence (dispositional inferences). Load participants' on-line and post-video performance and ability ratings showed this expected effect, as did no load participants' initial on-line performance ratings. However, no load participants' later on-line and post-video ratings did not. These findings support the notion that corrections for contextual influence can occur at the level of behavior identification as perceivers encode behavioral cues.

Key Words: dispositions • on-line inferences • behavior recategorization • comparison standards


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