Imhoff, Roland ORCID: 0000-0003-0807-463X and Koch, Alex ORCID: 0000-0002-6267-8066 (2017). How Orthogonal Are the Big Two of Social Perception? On the Curvilinear Relation Between Agency and Communion. Perspect. Psychol. Sci., 12 (1). S. 122 - 138. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 1745-6924

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Abstract

Humans make sense of their social environment by forming impressions of others that allow predicting others' actions. In this process of social perception, two types of information carry pivotal importance: other entities' communion (i.e., warmth and trustworthiness) and agency (i.e., status and power). Although commonly thought of as orthogonal dimensions, we propose that these Big Two of social perception are curvilinearly related. Specifically, as we delineate from four different theoretical explanations, impressions of communion should peak at average agency, while entities too high or too low on agency should be perceived as low on communion. We show this pattern for social groups across one novel and five previously published data sets, including a meta-analysis of the most comprehensive data collection in the group perception literature, consisting of 36 samples from more than 20 countries. Addressing the generalizability of this curvilinear relation, we then report recent and unpublished experiments establishing the effect for the perception of individuals and animals. On the basis of the proposed curvilinear relation, we revisit the primacy of processing communion (rather than agency) information. Finally, we discuss the possibility of a more general curvilinear relation between communion and dimensions other than agency.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Imhoff, RolandUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0003-0807-463XUNSPECIFIED
Koch, AlexUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0002-6267-8066UNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-247150
DOI: 10.1177/1745691616657334
Journal or Publication Title: Perspect. Psychol. Sci.
Volume: 12
Number: 1
Page Range: S. 122 - 138
Date: 2017
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Place of Publication: LONDON
ISSN: 1745-6924
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
STEREOTYPE CONTENT MODEL; MERE EXPOSURE; SELF-ESTEEM; FUNDAMENTAL DIMENSIONS; UNIVERSAL DIMENSIONS; PERCEIVED SIMILARITY; IMPRESSION-FORMATION; JOB-PERFORMANCE; INVERTED U; BEHAVIORMultiple languages
Psychology, MultidisciplinaryMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/24715

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