Instrument timbre and trait attribution.

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Ziv ◽  
Yael Ayash ◽  
Limor Ornstein
Keyword(s):  
Trait Attribution

CONSERVATISM AND THE PERCEPTION OF SELF AND OTHERS

1978 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Innes
Keyword(s):  
Trait Attribution ◽  
Perception Of Self

A study of the extent to which people are likely to attribute traits to other people rather more than to themselves produced support for the Jones and Nisbett (1972) hypothesis. The level of trait attribution in the present study was, however, higher than that obtained in previous studies. Subjects low in conservatism assigned more traits than did those high in conservatism, but there was no interaction between conservatism and attribution of traits to self versus others. No support was found for the hypothesis that high conservatives make more extreme judgments than low conservatives.

Facial width-to-height (fWHR) revisited

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Windmann ◽  
Patrick Stier ◽  
Lisa Steinbrück
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Character Trait ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Trait Attribution ◽  
Attribution Biases ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Photo Editing ◽  
Character Types

To investigate peoples' trait attribution biases, we asked participants to generate faces of "bad guys" and "good guys" using three methods: free drawings, photo-editing, and feature assembly. In referring to research linking facial width (relative to height, fWHR) with aggressive and dominant personality traits in males, we compared fWHR displayed in the generated portraits between the two character types . We found that participants modelled emotional expressions (in particular, expression of anger and fear/friendliness), but not fWHR per se, to portray character trait. When emotional expressions were statistically controlled for, no difference in fWHR between "bad guys" and "good guys" remained. We conclude that emotion overgeneralization is a strong confound in research on fWHR.

scholarly journals Constructing Personality Maps, Mapping Personality Constructs: Multidimensional Scaling Recovers the Big Five Factors from Internal and External Structure

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bimler ◽  
John Kirkland
Keyword(s):  
Multidimensional Scaling ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Semantic Judgment ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Trait Attribution ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Optimal Set

This report examines the structure of similarities underlying the lexicon of personality-trait description, when “similarity” is defined and measured in terms of (a) semantic judgment and (b) covariance in actual use. A lexicon of 60 trait adjectives was examined, using several procedures for collecting semantic judgments. Similarity data of both kinds were analyzed with multidimensional scaling (MDS) to provide a parsimonious representation of underlying structure. The convergence between semantic judgments and covariance within trait-attribution data was substantial; both kinds of data evinced the same structure when collected for subsets of adjectives. Canonical correlation was employed to find the number of dimensions shared across MDS solutions. Interpretation of the results was facilitated by individual-differences MDS, which can select an optimal set of underlying dimensions, and at the same time accommodate the differences between data sets that arise when data-collection procedures differ in the relative emphasis they place upon those dimensions. We interpret the small number and shared nature of the dimensions by arguing that the lexicon's structure relates to trait perception rather than personality structure per se, even when probed with trait-attribution covariance.

Occupational Differences and Attribution of Trait Adjectives to Ethnic Groups

1976 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 535-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Corenblum ◽  
Donald G. Fischer ◽  
Ken Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Factor Scores ◽  
Canadian English ◽  
French Canadians ◽  
Occupational Differences ◽  
Trait Attribution ◽  
Ethnic Cues ◽  
Status Cues ◽  
Main Effects ◽  
English Canadian

The present study was designed to determine the influence of role, status and ethnic cues on stereotyping. 24 ethnic-occupation combinations were formed by completely crossing four ethnic groups (French Canadian, English Canadian, Indian, and Oriental) and six occupations, selected to represent high, middle and low status positions. Subjects rated one of the combinations on 56 trait adjectives. The ratings were factor analyzed, and four factors, success, negativism, submissiveness, and emotionality, were extracted. Factor scores were calculated and entered into four ethnic group × occupation analyses. Significant main effects on three factors and a significant interaction on the submissiveness dimension were noted. Subsequent analysis showed that the stereotype of the ingroup, English Canadians, reflected differences in occupation, but the stereotypes of the outgroups, French Canadians and Indians, were not so influenced. These results are inconsistent with the hypothesis that ingroup stereotyping is based upon role and status cues whereas outgroup stereotyping is determined by ethnic cues. The results are consistent with the notion that role, status and ethnic cues influence trait-attribution to ethnic groups.

Errors about Errors: Virtue Theory and Trait Attribution

Mind ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 111 (441) ◽  
pp. 47-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Sreenivasan
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Theory ◽  
Trait Attribution

Looking Back at Oneself in Time: Another Approach to the Actor-Observer Phenomenon

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1283-1287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lenauer ◽  
Lillian Sameth ◽  
Phillip Shaver
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Observer Effect ◽  
The Past ◽  
Trait Attribution ◽  
The Future ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Looking Back

Two studies were reported in which a mean trait attribution pattern parallel to the Jones-Nisbett actor-observer effect was obtained within subjects when people were asked to describe what they were like in the past, are like now, and will be like in the future. This argues in favor of the perspective or salience explanation of the actor-observer phenomenon. Both temporal and role defined actor-observer differences, while statistically significant, were due to a minority of subjects. This minority did not differ from the majority on measures of locus of control and self-consciousness. Problems and implications were discussed briefly.

scholarly journals Red shape, blue shape: political ideology influences the social perception of body shape

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
María Alejandra Quirós-Ramírez ◽  
Stephan Streuber ◽  
Michael J. Black
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Societal Implications ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
Political Preference ◽  
Political Identification ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Trait Attribution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Body Shapes

AbstractPolitical elections have a profound impact on individuals and societies. Optimal voting is thought to be based on informed and deliberate decisions yet, it has been demonstrated that the outcomes of political elections are biased by the perception of candidates’ facial features and the stereotypical traits voters attribute to these. Interestingly, political identification changes the attribution of stereotypical traits from facial features. This study explores whether the perception of body shape elicits similar effects on political trait attribution and whether these associations can be visualized. In Experiment 1, ratings of 3D body shapes were used to model the relationship between perception of 3D body shape and the attribution of political traits such as ‘Republican’, ‘Democrat’, or ‘Leader’. This allowed analyzing and visualizing the mental representations of stereotypical 3D body shapes associated with each political trait. Experiment 2 was designed to test whether political identification of the raters affected the attribution of political traits to different types of body shapes. The results show that humans attribute political traits to the same body shapes differently depending on their own political preference. These findings show that our judgments of others are influenced by their body shape and our own political views. Such judgments have potential political and societal implications.

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