The impression one forms of a person is often thought to consist of a set of personality trait
labels that, separately or in combination, provide the basis for affective reactions to the …

Many personality trait terms can be thought of as summary labels for broad conceptual
categories that are used to encode information about an individual's behavior into memory …

The present study examined the immediate and delayed effects of unobtrusive exposure to
personality trait terms (eg,“reckless”,“persistent”) on subjects' subsequent judgments and …

In 3 experiments the likelihood that a behavior is interpreted in terms of a particular trait
category was postulated to be a function of the relative accessibility of that category in …

The immediate environmental context in which social events occur and the current
processing goals of the perceiver have been found to be important determinants of …

The term, schema, appears to have been first used by Bartlett in 1932 in his work on recall of
perceptual experience. A minimal theory is not, however, necessarily a good theory, and so …

The goal of the present chapter is to consider the implications of a 2-way classification of
processing modes (ie, category-based and person-based) for encoding, organization, and …

The accessibility of a category in memory has been shown to influence the selection and
interpretation of social information. The present experiment examined the possibility that …

Social judgments and social behaviors generally have been assumed to be mediated by
declarative knowledge structures, such as schemas, stereotypes, prototypes, or scripts. In …

It is proposed that many of the releasing or disinhibiting effects caused by models can be
accounted for by information-processing mechanisms, without recourse to the concept of …