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impression: a standalone construct

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impression1 CONSTRUCTPerson impressionASCH · PERSON PERCEPTION

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Social psychology

the overall judgement a perceiver forms of another person from limited cues, and people's efforts to manage it.

In social psychology an impression is the overall judgement a perceiver forms of another person from limited cues, and impression management is the complementary process by which people try to control the impressions others form of them. Asch's 1946 Forming impressions of personality showed that a few trait words combine into a unified, configural impression rather than a simple sum, while Leary and Kowalski's 1990 review and Goffman's dramaturgical account treated self-presentation as a strategic performance staged for an audience. The referent is a mental representation of a person, or the act of shaping one, studied through ratings and judgements, not a served advertisement, a dental mould, or an inked print.[1][2][3]

Unit
A perceiver's judgement of a person, or an attempt to shape it
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Assessed by trait ratings, judgement tasks, and behavioural coding of self-presentation, not by any physical count

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perception3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructspresentation2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructswarmth3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

  1. Asch, S. E. (1946). Forming impressions of personality. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 41(3), 258–290. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0055756
  2. Leary, M. R., & Kowalski, R. M. (1990). Impression management: A literature review and two-component model. Psychological Bulletin, 107(1), 34–47. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.107.1.34
  3. Goffman, E. (1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-09402-3. ISBN 9780385094023

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