Relation of social intelligence and spatial ability to cognitive complexity in person perception

1972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorma Kuusinen ◽  
Lars Nystedt
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Ability ◽  
Cognitive Complexity ◽  
Person Perception ◽  
Social Intelligence

An Investigation of Some Cognitive Factors Involved in Person-Perception during Selection Interviews

1989 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 735-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Ferguson ◽  
Clive Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Complexity ◽  
Person Perception ◽  
Cognitive Integration ◽  
Cognitive Measures ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Female Candidate ◽  
Wechsler Memory Scale ◽  
Cognitive Components ◽  
Selection Interviews ◽  
Opposite Sex

The study examined some of the cognitive components in accuracy of social perception during the selection interview. 75 undergraduates completed several cognitive measures and were then required to interview a candidate for the job of accountant and make ratings of the candidate on several dimensions. Analysis showed pervasive sex differences in accuracy, and many effects specific either to same sex or to opposite sex dyads. Accuracy of female interviewers tended to be associated with greater cognitive complexity and integration of the interviewers. Accuracy of male interviewers was more dependent on the sex of the candidate; when interviewing a male candidate, accuracy was negatively associated with cognitive integration and when interviewing a female candidate, accuracy was negatively associated with the logical memory and visual recall subscales of the Wechsler Memory Scale.

Information-Seeking Strategies in Person Perception

1968 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Nidorf
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Cognitive Complexity ◽  
Person Perception ◽  
Stimulus Person ◽  
Input Information ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Initial Impressions

Information sought by Ss desiring to form an impression of a stimulus person was explored in relation to (1) the sex of the S, (2) the sex of the stimulus person, and (3) the valence of the initial input information. The results were interpreted in terms of various information-seeking strategies used by Ss in matching the additional sought information to their initial impressions. A fourth variable, S's cognitive complexity, was found to be related to the amount of information sought by females: the more cognitively complex females sought the most information in forming their impressions of a stimulus person.

PERSONALITY AND PERSON PERCEPTION IN AFRICA

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Person Perception ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
The Body ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Three Dimension ◽  
The People ◽  
Sub Saharan

The paper reviews personality and social behavior in Africa. Three distinctive components of the people inhabiting present-day sub-Saharan Africa are identified: (1) traditional persons who are yet little affected by modernization, (2) transitional persons, and (3) modern individuals. The socialization of traditional and transitional persons can be illustrated in the form of a model in three dimensions: the authority dimension (vertical, diachronic, historic); the group dimension (horizontal, synchronic, social); the body – mind – environment dimension. Various personhood attributes are identified along the three dimension such as that the traditional person is socialized primarily by people, while the modern person is socialized primarily by objects. By being exposed to people, the traditional person will develop more social intelligence than technological intelligence.

Implicit Distribution Theory: The Influence of Cognitive Representation of Differentiation on Actual Ratings

1993 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaul Fox ◽  
George C. Thornton
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Complexity ◽  
Person Perception ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Distribution Theory ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Parallel Features ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Trait Differentiation

The article presents the idea that individuals possess three main mental representations of distributions regarding group categories: trait differentiation, person differentiation, and the interaction between trait and person variabilities. These representations are called Implicit Distribution Theory. The study examined the stability of these distributional notions, their interrelationships, and their relation to subsequent judgments. The implicit distribution theories of 89 students regarding university professors were captured twice by asking them to distribute 100 imaginary professors on 5-point scales for each of 13 attributes commonly used in professors' evaluations. Several weeks afterwards 50 of these subjects rated four known professors on the same attributes. Test-retest reliability was quite high for trait and person differentiation, and these constructs were independent. Person differentiation significantly predicted parallel features in raters' judgments of actual performance, while trait differentiation yielded significant correlations with most distribution measures of actual ratings. The findings are related to the concepts of mental representation, cognitive complexity, and cognitive biases in person perception as well as to their potential applications in organizational settings.

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