Disentangling the effects of similarity, familiarity, and liking on social inference strategies.

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI:10.1111/bjso.12793

Haran Sened, Tony X Phan, Mark A Thornton, Sara Verosky, Diana I Tamir

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People constantly make inferences about others' beliefs and preferences. People can draw on various sources of information to make these inferences, including stereotypes, self-knowledge, and target-specific knowledge. What leads people to use each of these sources of information over others? The current study examined factors that influence the use of these sources of information, focusing on three interpersonal dimensions - the extent to which people feel (a) familiar with, (b) similar to, or (c) like the target. In four studies (total N = 1136), participants inferred the beliefs and preferences of others - celebrities (Studies 1a-1b), constructed fictional targets (Study 2), and actual acquaintances (Study 3). Participants also rated familiarity with, similarity to, and liking of the target. Analyses assessed the use of each source of information by comparing inferences with information provided by those sources. Familiarity was associated with greater use of target-specific knowledge, while similarity and liking were associated with self-knowledge. Low similarity and high liking were associated with increased use of stereotypes. We discuss the implication of these findings and their applicability to unique cases, including inferences about celebrities, public figures, and positively stereotyped groups, in which familiarity, similarity, and liking do not perfectly align.

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区分相似、熟悉和喜欢对社交推理策略的影响。

人们经常会对他人的信仰和偏好做出推断。人们可以利用各种信息来源进行推断，包括刻板印象、自我认知和特定目标知识。是什么导致人们使用这些信息来源而不是其他信息来源呢？本研究考察了影响这些信息来源使用的因素，重点关注三个人际维度--人们对目标的(a)熟悉程度、(b)相似程度或(c)喜欢程度。在四项研究中（总人数 = 1136），参与者推断他人的信仰和偏好--名人（研究 1a-1b）、虚构目标（研究 2）和实际熟人（研究 3）。参与者还对目标人物的熟悉度、相似度和喜爱度进行评分。通过比较推断与信息来源提供的信息，分析评估了每种信息来源的使用情况。熟悉程度与更多地使用目标的特定知识有关，而相似度和喜欢程度则与自我知识有关。低相似度和高好感度与刻板印象的使用增加有关。我们讨论了这些发现的意义及其对独特情况的适用性，包括对名人、公众人物和正面刻板印象群体的推断，在这些情况下，熟悉度、相似度和喜欢度并不完全一致。

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British Journal of Social Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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期刊介绍： The British Journal of Social Psychology publishes work from scholars based in all parts of the world, and manuscripts that present data on a wide range of populations inside and outside the UK. It publishes original papers in all areas of social psychology including: • social cognition • attitudes • group processes • social influence • intergroup relations • self and identity • nonverbal communication • social psychological aspects of personality, affect and emotion • language and discourse Submissions addressing these topics from a variety of approaches and methods, both quantitative and qualitative are welcomed. We publish papers of the following kinds: • empirical papers that address theoretical issues; • theoretical papers, including analyses of existing social psychological theories and presentations of theoretical innovations, extensions, or integrations; • review papers that provide an evaluation of work within a given area of social psychology and that present proposals for further research in that area; • methodological papers concerning issues that are particularly relevant to a wide range of social psychologists; • an invited agenda article as the first article in the first part of every volume. The editorial team aims to handle papers as efficiently as possible. In 2016, papers were triaged within less than a week, and the average turnaround time from receipt of the manuscript to first decision sent back to the authors was 47 days.