The Role of Category Accessibility in the Interpretation of Information About Persons: Some Determinants and Implications

The Role of Category Accessibility in the Interpretation of Information About Persons: Some Determinants and Implications Thomas K. Srull Robert S. Wyer

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The Role of Category Accessibility in the Interpretation of Information About Persons: Some Determinants and Implications 1979 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 10.1037/0022-3514.37.10.1660 srull-wyer1979-category-accessibility srull-wyer1979-category-accessibility.txt, the project's staged copy 3f5bc1a75d4bb14d2ae3045929badba4a72d1f5c personal-copy social-psychology

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0 spans located by searching the stored text for the quote's exact words, allowing any whitespace between them mechanism Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. category accessibility in person perception Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. behavioural-experiment behavioural-experiment Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. The encoding step assumed to mediate the effect was not directly measured. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. The apparent negative priming effect at 24 hours in Experiment 1 is not trustworthy without replication. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. The claim that the same encoding processes operated as in Higgins et al. rests on paradigm similarity, not on data collected here. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Only two trait concepts were studied, so the hostility/kindness asymmetry needs a broader sample. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. the filler items were held IDENTICAL across conditions, so that only the priming items differed eliminates: that something else in the sentence-construction task produced the effect · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. category accessibility category accessibility Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. priming priming Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. encoding encoding Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. halo effect halo effect Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. THE AMBIGUITY CONDITION, FOR THE FOURTH TIME AND FROM A FOURTH DIRECTION: `Quotation withheld when the implications of this information are relatively ambiguous.` With higgins1977 (`at least in ambiguous situations`), north1999 (`only when there is an element of UNCERTAINTY`) and money2013 (`a situation that does not leave much room for interpretation`), that is four papers across 1977-2015 and three fields. And here it is not a qualifier in passing: it is one of four summarised findings, and the target behaviours were SELECTED for ambiguity by a separate rating study of 43 subjects before the experiment began Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. FREQUENCY IS A DOSE, AND THE PAPER SAYS SO AS A GENERAL LAW RATHER THAN A RESULT: `Quotation withheld.` Not `in this experiment` - in the past. The claim is that ordinary life is continuously setting accessibility, and the laboratory manipulation is only a controlled instance of something always running. That is a much larger claim than the experiment tests, and it is the one the field inherited Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. THE DECAY IS SLOW AND INCOMPLETE: `although these effects decrease with the time interval between their activation and the acquisition of information to be interpreted or encoded, they are sometimes detectable even after 24 hours.` A priming effect surviving a day, in a corpus whose other records measure the same word in MILLISECONDS - vorberg2003's time courses, Holcomb2005's 40 ms primes, Huang2018's 16 ms exposure. The same term spans six orders of magnitude of persistence, and `sometimes detectable` is the hedge that keeps this one honest Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. A GRADIENT USED TO RULE OUT A RIVAL ACCOUNT: the priming generalised to traits related to the primed one only indirectly, but LESS strongly - `Quotation withheld produced by exposure to `good` or `bad` concepts on the priming task.` A halo would not respect the distance between traits. The rival is excluded by the SHAPE of the effect rather than by a control condition, which is a cheaper and less common move Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. AND THEY BORROW higgins1977'S MECHANISM EVIDENCE AND MARK THE BORROWING: `Quotation withheld ... Quotation withheld` They lean on Higgins' applicability null - primed traits that were evaluatively toned but INAPPLICABLE had no effect - for the mechanism their own design does not test, name it as a borrowing, and mark the inference tentative in the same paragraph. Both papers are in this corpus and the dependency is now recorded from the borrowing side Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. extends → Higgins, Rholes, and Jones (1977) Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. contradicts → the spreading activation approach of Collins & Loftus (1975) as an account of social priming Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. category accessibility —causes→ encoding category accessibility encoding direction on the measure: increases · strength of the relation: 0.9 · note: THE 'WHEN ... AMBIGUOUS' CLAUSE IS INSIDE THE QUOTE AND IT IS HALF THE CLAIM. An edge reading 'accessibility drives encoding' without it states the 1977-79 result as the unconditional version the field later argued about - and this is the fourth paper in the corpus to name that same condition. Weight 0.9: the paper's own summary of its own finding, in its discussion. 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