TY - JOUR
AU - Severance, Laurence J.
AB -  1 Wodc siq)ixaftsd by NSF GS 1114 2. Now at WiBiams Gcdlege Primacy and assimilation in attribution such studies refiect a primacy effect. That is, the positivennegative list creates a more favorable impression than the negative-positive Lst The values of the constituent traits are not simply averaged, the later ixaits are apparently discounted, distorted in meaning, or Ignored. There are many difficulties with attemptmg to relate the results of such studies to naturalistic impression formation. The judgment context is artificial, the judgments have no particular consequences for the subjects, it is generally not clear how the traits were derived or why they appear in the particular ordar they do, and subjects are often asked to make successive judgments of different persons represented by different trait lists. In gaieral, it is not at all clear whether the subjects are able to put themselves in the role of judging another person, or whethra: the results m i ^ t more properly be classified unda: the headmg of semantic mtegration. A more neglected but more naturahstic amtext for studying order effects is that in which subjects observe a stimulus person behaving through some time period and then attempt to make an 
TI - Primacy and assimilation in the attribution process: The stable entity proposition1
JF - Journal of Personality
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1972.tb01002.x
DA - 1972-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/primacy-and-assimilation-in-the-attribution-process-the-stable-entity-cBMN3Z6X4e
SP - 250
EP - 274
VL - 40
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -