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- Title
The effects of variance on personality impression formation.
- Authors
Levy, Leon H.; Levy, L H
- Abstract
The article focuses on the effect of variance on personality impression formation. In personality impression formation, the array of information from which impressions are formed represents a sample of all the information which in its totality may be conceived of as constituting the other person as a stimulus. Regardless of the nature of the sample, whether it be a list of adjectives, behavioral observations or facial photographs, it is unlikely to be of a single piece with respect to any particular dimension of personality. There is a growing body of literature suggesting that variation and uncertainty, at least up to a point, may in themselves be attractive. Previous research on the perception of groups appears to be consistent with this. The variability in a group of persons with respect to some personality dimension, say, friendliness, could mean that were one to interact with such a group he could not expect all members to be equally friendly, and that one's certainty about the friendliness of any single member chosen at random would be less, the greater the variance in the group.
- Subjects
PERSONALITY; ANALYSIS of variance; SOCIAL perception; INTERPERSONAL relations; SOCIAL groups; SOCIAL psychology; PERSONALITY assessment; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests
- Publication
Journal of Personality, 1967, Vol 35, Issue 2, p179
- ISSN
0022-3506
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6494.1967.tb01423.x