Talk:Impression formation

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Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:33, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Impression Formation → Impression formation –

Per WP:CAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. Tony  (talk)  09:48, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Student edit timeline, Spring 2012
As a senior capstone project, students are working improve the content of selected articles. More details are on the course page. Student first edits are due April 20, then we'll spend a week reviewing. Final project is due by May 14, 2012. Thanks for your encouragement and support. Greta Munger (talk) 15:04, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

APS Project References and Brief Outline
Hi everyone, I'm interested in impression formation. Below is a list of the references I am planning on using to update the impression formation page for a class project. The references are still tentative, so the list may change between now and my final edits on May 14th. I plan to build out the opening section/definition, add a general methods section and sections explaining the dominant theories concerning impression formation and the related research findings. Thanks!

Sources: Ames, D. R., Kammrath, L. K., Suppes, A., & Bolger, N. (2010). Not so fast: The (not-quite-complete) dissociation between accuracy and confidence in thin-slice impressions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36(2), 264-277. doi:10.1177/0146167209354519

Anderson, N. H., & Barrios, A. A. (1961). Primacy effects in personality impression formation. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 63(2), 346-350. doi:10.1037/h0046719

Anderson, N. H. (1965). Averaging versus adding as a stimulus-combination rule in impression formation. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(4), 394-400. doi:10.1037/h0022280

Anderson, N. H. (1965). Primacy effects in personality impression formation using a generalized order effect paradigm. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2(1), 1-9. doi:10.1037/h0021966

Asch, S. E. (1946). Forming impressions of personality. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 41(3), 258-290. doi:10.1037/h0055756

Coovert, M. D., & Reeder, G. D. (1990). Negativity effects in impression formation: The role of unit formation and schematic expectations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 26(1), 49-62. doi:10.1016/0022-1031(90)90061-P

Gilbert, D. T., Pelham, B. W., & Krull, D. S. (1988). On cognitive busyness: When person perceivers meet persons perceived. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54(5), 733-740. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.54.5.733

Hamilton, D. L., & Sherman, S. J. (1996). Perceiving persons and groups. Psychological Review, 103(2), 336-355. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.103.2.336

Heider, F. (1944). Social perception and phenomenal causality. Psychological Review, 51(6), 358-374. doi:10.1037/h0055425

Idson, L. C., & Mischel, W. (2001). The personality of familiar and significant people: The lay perceiver as a social–cognitive theorist. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80(4), 585-596. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.80.4.585

Kammrath, L. K., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Mischel, W. (2005). Incorporating if...then...personality signatures in person perception: Beyond the person-situation dichotomy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88(4), 605-618. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.88.4.605

Naumann, L. P., Vazire, S., Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (2009). Personality judgments based on physical appearance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35(12), 1661-1671. doi:10.1177/0146167209346309

Reeder, G. D., Vonk, R., Ronk, M. J., Ham, J., & Lawrence, M. (2004). Dispositional attribution: Multiple inferences about motive-related traits. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86(4), 530-544. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.86.4.530

Roese, N. J., & Morris, M. W. (1999). Impression valence constrains social explanations: The case of discounting versus conjunction effects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(3), 437-448. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.77.3.437

Skowronski, J. J., & Carlston, D. E. (1987). Social judgment and social memory: The role of cue diagnosticity in negativity, positivity, and extremity biases. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52(4), 689-699. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.52.4.689

Skowronski, J. J., & Carlston, D. E. (1989). Negativity and extremity biases in impression formation: A review of explanations. Psychological Bulletin, 105(1), 131-142. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.105.1.131

Van Overwalle, F., & Labiouse, C. (2004). A recurrent connectionist model of person impression formation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8(1), 28-61. doi:10.1207/S15327957PSPR0801_2 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saplumer (talk • contribs) 16:23, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Peer Review: Psych 402
Peer Review: First Draft of Edits

In regards to content: You could expand the Methods section to include a brief paragraph about each type of method commonly used. If there are wiki pages that are about “free association” or “free response,” I would link to those within the paragraph. If you find any particularly famous studies about impression formation I would reference those as well. In the Impression Formation section, do the first 3 paragraphs refer to the same study? If so, it would help to cite the researchers or refer to it as a single study rather than a compilation of information about impression formation. Also, it’d be helpful to explain what each variable (Potency, Evaluation, etc.) mean. I’m guessing you started writing the last paragraph in the section and will add to it later. This section was a bit confusing overall.

In regards to formatting: I personally don’t know the protocol for where to put the citation (whether it goes within the sentence or at the end), but I would look into that because it can seem choppy with the citation numbers in the middle of the sentence. Also, the History and Impression Formation sections are a little hard to read because the paragraphs are so close together, so you could space them out more.

Looks great so far! The writing is high quality and I think your intentions to expand the methods section and clarify subsequent sections will help the page a lot. Good luck! SarDavis (talk) 02:35, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Peer Review
Overall, the article is well-written and really concise, but I think you could add more detail to help the average Wiki reader better understand the topic. In the introduction it might be helpful to add descriptions of the two different theoretical approaches. The Methods section is a little vague, and it would help to know which methods go with which results. I agree with Sara that you should clarify what the variables "evaluation," "potency," and "activity" are in the Impression-formation processes in the US section. I was definitely a little confused after reading this section. There are also some formatting issues, like the citations in the middle of sentences. You should put them at the end, after the period. I am not completely sure about this but I think Wikipedia prefers that you do not include authors' names in the article. We'll have to ask Dr. Munger though. You could probably go through and add a few more Wikilinks as well. I would consider adding a summary section at the end because it might help to make the page more understandable.

This page is already really good and it will be even better after a few changes! Great job! Kendrick Miles (talk) 01:04, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Final Summary
My final revision of the impression formation page included the following changes/additions:

--additional detail and clarification of impression formation in the opening paragraph

--A methods section containing subsections for each of the 4 principle techniques used to measure impression management

--A section containing a summary of significant experimental results

--A summary of the seminal research conducted by Asch, including the central principles elucidated by Asch and upon which much of the subsequent information on impression formation is based

--The original sections about theory and impression formation in the US were moved to the bottom of the page but remained unchanged otherwise

I added the following 5 sources to my final revision of impression formation:

1. [www.credoreference.com/entry/estpsychtheory/impression_formation_theories_of "Impression Formation, Theories Of"]. Elsevier's Dictionary of Psychological Theories. Retrieved 4/19/12.

2. DeCoster, Jamie; Claypool, Heather M. (1 February 2004). "A Meta-Analysis of Priming Effects on Impression Formation Supporting a General Model of Informational Biases". Personality and Social Psychology Review 8 (1): 2–27.

3. Himmelfarb, Samuel (1 January 1972). "Integration and attribution theories in personality impression formation.". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 23 (3): 309–313. doi:10.1037/h0033126

4. Hirt, Edward R. (1 January 1990). "Do I see only what I expect? Evidence for an expectancy-guided retrieval model.". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 58 (6): 937–951. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.58.6.937

5. Hoffman, Curt; Mischel, Walter, Mazze, Karen (1 January 1981). "The role of purpose in the organization of information about behavior: Trait-based versus goal-based categories in person cognition.". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 40 (2): 211–225. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.40.2.211 Saplumer (talk) 08:47, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Most of this article is centered around Asch
I noticed a lot of this article is centered around Solomon Asch, and even sort of tried to promote him. I'm wondering if this is a problem/if there is some COI going on. --Firestar464 (talk) 03:44, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

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