This study focused on the cognitive abstractness or concreteness of a subject, the level of cognitive complexity reflecting the ways in which a person receives, stores, and transmits information. (Author/RK)

The operation of a covert information processing mechanism was investigated in two experiments of the self-persuasion phenomena; i. e., making an inference about a stimulus on the basis of one's past behavior. (Editor)

The present investigation sought to obtain further evidence to show that the difference between male and female subjects is not simply a matter of persuasibility but a difference in the way objective (male) and emotional (female) information processing systems respond to audience cues. (Author)

This paper is concerned with the role of redundancy in two important communication settings. Experiments 1 and 2 explored the effects of redundancy in a decoding task, where the respondent's goal is to identify the referent implied by a pair of descriptive messages. Experiment 3 assessed the extent to which people choose redundant messages when…

This study investigates attributions based on behavior congruent with situational demands (in-role) and those based on behavior incongruent with situational demands (out-of-role). (Editor)

The results of three studies clearly indicate that ongoing behavior is organized into perceptual units, and that these units may be validly identified by the Newtson (1973) unit marking procedure. (Author)

Jones and Nisbett (1972) hypothesize that actors attribute their actions to situational requirements whereas observers attribute the same actions to personal dispositions. This hypothesis is critically examined and a reconceptualization is proposed. (Editor/RK)

The present study examined the immediate and delayed effects of unobtrusive exposure to personality trait terms (e.g., "reckless,""persistent") on subjects' subsequent judgments and recollection of information about another person. The implications of individual and situational variation in the accessibility of different categories for judgments…

A mathematical model based upon signal detection theory is developed that characterizes social influences upon judgments of a stimulus. A social influence cue and the physical aspects of the stimulus were assumed to have independent effects upon performance. (Editor)

Clarifies several ambiguities concerning the manner in which persons combine behavioral information and information about others' opinions to infer the beliefs held by themselves and others. (Author/RK)

Previous approaches to impression formation from verbal information are discussed. A "holistic reference" approach is presented which proposes that a person first calls to mind the reference of the verbal description as a whole, and then evaluates that reference. (Editor)