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Social judgment reluctance: individual differences in impression formation motivations and behaviors
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Social judgment reluctance: individual differences in impression formation motivations and behaviors
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Melanie Rachel
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Impression formation theories propose that perceivers effortfully update their automatic impressions of others when they have sufficient time, cognitive ability, and motivation. In this dissertation, I propose a novel impression formation motive, social judgment reluctance (SJR), which accounts for perceivers’ reluctance to trust their initial impressions of others and their desire to learn more about others to form accurate impressions. Across six studies, I developed and refined a measure of SJR (Pilot Studies 1 and 2). Results revealed two SJR factors (SJR-information seeking and SJR-gut distrust) that have distinct relationships to existing individual difference measures (Studies 1 and 2). The present research established valid and reliable SJR factors (Studies 1 and 2). Across two studies, I examined the predictive utility of the SJR factors in impression formation and behavioral attribution contexts (Studies 3 and 4). Higher SJR-information seeking related to providing more “no opinion” responses when asked about impressions of others, and attributing blame to external factors more and dispositional factors less for negative outcomes with ambiguous causes. Higher SJR-gut distrust related to providing more neutral responses when asked about impressions of others, attributing blame to external factors more for negative outcomes with ambiguous causes, and being less confident in impressions and attributions. These SJR factors are thus expected to provide useful insight into perceivers’ impressions and attributions in many areas of research, including in future research on person perception, intergroup relations, close relationships, and identity threat.
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Social psychology
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Impression formation
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Individual differences
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Person perception
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Social cognition
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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