Over the past few decades, two-factor models of social cognition have emerged as a
dominant framework for understanding impression development. These models suggest that …

Morality, which refers to characteristics such as trustworthiness and honesty, has a primary
role in social perception and judgment. A negativity effect characterizes the morality …

Questions are important tools for uncovering information, but to avoid deception, question
askers must be strategic in what and how they ask—and consider the social implications of …

Drawing together social psychologists' concerns with equality and cognitive psychologists'
concerns with scientific inference, 6 studies (N= 841) showed how implicit category norms …

Trait inference in person perception is based on observers' implicit assumptions about the
relations between trait adjectives (eg, fair) and the either consistent or inconsistent …

Evidence evaluation is a crucial process in many human activities, spanning from medical
diagnosis to impression formation. The present experiments investigated which, if any …

With reference to Wason's 2-4-6 rule discovery task, this study investigated the effects of a
simple training session that prompted participants to “think in opposites”. The results showed …

Two experiments examined how people perceive the diagnosticity of different answers
(“yes” and “no”) to the same question. We manipulated whether the “yes” and the “no” …

When examining social targets, people may ask asymmetric questions, that is, questions for
which “yes” and “no” answers are neither equally diagnostic nor equally frequent. The …

Per acquisire conoscenze sulla realtà sociale circostante e verificare le proprie ipotesi sugli
altri, così come avviene per l'ambiente fisico, le persone ricorrono a strategie di ricerca di …