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Transference in Social Perception: The Role of Chronic Accessibility in Significant-Other Representations

Transference in Social Perception: The Role of Chronic Accessibility in Significant-Other... Research has shown that the activation and application of a significant-other representation to a new person, or transference,occurs in everyday social perception (S. M. Andersen & A. Baum, 1994; S. M. Andersen & S. W. Cole, 1990).Using a combined idiographic and nomothetic experimental paradigm, two studies examined the role of chronic accessibilityof significant-other representations in transference. After learning about 4 fictional people, 1 of whom resembled a significant other, participants' recognition memory was assessed. Both studies showed greater false-positive memory in the significant-other condition, relative to control, even in the absence of priming. Study 2 showed that although the effect was greater when the significant-other representation was concretely applicable to the target information, it occurred even when no such applicability was present. Results implicate the chronic accessibility of significant-other representations in transference. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Personality and Social Psychology American Psychological Association

Transference in Social Perception: The Role of Chronic Accessibility in Significant-Other Representations

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Publisher
American Psychological Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1995 American Psychological Association
ISSN
0022-3514
eISSN
1939-1315
DOI
10.1037/0022-3514.69.1.41
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Abstract

Research has shown that the activation and application of a significant-other representation to a new person, or transference,occurs in everyday social perception (S. M. Andersen & A. Baum, 1994; S. M. Andersen & S. W. Cole, 1990).Using a combined idiographic and nomothetic experimental paradigm, two studies examined the role of chronic accessibilityof significant-other representations in transference. After learning about 4 fictional people, 1 of whom resembled a significant other, participants' recognition memory was assessed. Both studies showed greater false-positive memory in the significant-other condition, relative to control, even in the absence of priming. Study 2 showed that although the effect was greater when the significant-other representation was concretely applicable to the target information, it occurred even when no such applicability was present. Results implicate the chronic accessibility of significant-other representations in transference.

Journal

Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association

Published: Jul 1, 1995

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