SEEING LESS AND KNOWING MORE - THE BENEFITS OF PERCEPTUAL IGNORANCE
SEEING LESS AND KNOWING MORE - THE BENEFITS OF PERCEPTUAL IGNORANCE
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DOI:
10.1037/0022-3514.54.2.193
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发表时间:
1988-02-01
影响因子:
7.6
通讯作者:
KRULL, DS
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作者:
GILBERT, DT;KRULL, DS
We suggest that dispositions are more automatically inferred from nonlinguistic than from linguistic behavior, and thus the attributional processing of linguistic behavior is more easily impaired by peripheral cognitive activities. In Experiment 1, subjects observed an applicant who claimed to possess the requisite attributes for a desirable job, but who failed to display nonlinguistic behavior to support that claim. Subjects who performed a concurrent visual detection task based their attributions primarily on the applicant's nonlinguistic behavior and drew less biased inferences than did control subjects. In Experiments 2 and 3, subjects heard an unenthusiastic essayist who was constrained to read a political speech. Subjects who performed either a concurrent visual detection task or a concurrent social influence task drew less biased inferences than did control subjects. These studies suggest that person perception includes subprocesses that differ in their characteristic degrees of automaticity and that performing simultaneous cognitive operations may enable perceivers to avoid certain kinds of inferential errors.