TY - JOUR
T1 - Transference in Social Perception
T2 - The Role of Chronic Accessibility in Significant-Other Representations
AU - Andersen, Susan M.
AU - Glassman, Noah S.
AU - Chen, Serena
AU - Cole, Steve W.
PY - 1995/7
Y1 - 1995/7
N2 - Research has shown that the activation and application of a significant-other representation to a new person, or transference, occurs in everyday social perception (S.M. Andersen & A. Baum, 1994; S.M. Andersen & S.W. Cole, 1990). Using a combined idiographic and nomothetic experimental paradigm, two studies examined the role of chronic accessibility of significant-other representations in transference. After learning about 4 fictional people, 1 of whom resembled a significant other, participants' recognition memory was assessed. Both studies showed greater false-positive memory in the significant-other condition, relative to control, even in the absence of priming. Study 2 showed that although the effect was greater when the significant-other representation was concretely applicable to the target information, it occurred even when no such applicability was present. Results implicate the chronic accessibility of significant-other representations in transference.
AB - Research has shown that the activation and application of a significant-other representation to a new person, or transference, occurs in everyday social perception (S.M. Andersen & A. Baum, 1994; S.M. Andersen & S.W. Cole, 1990). Using a combined idiographic and nomothetic experimental paradigm, two studies examined the role of chronic accessibility of significant-other representations in transference. After learning about 4 fictional people, 1 of whom resembled a significant other, participants' recognition memory was assessed. Both studies showed greater false-positive memory in the significant-other condition, relative to control, even in the absence of priming. Study 2 showed that although the effect was greater when the significant-other representation was concretely applicable to the target information, it occurred even when no such applicability was present. Results implicate the chronic accessibility of significant-other representations in transference.
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U2 - 10.1037/0022-3514.69.1.41
DO - 10.1037/0022-3514.69.1.41
M3 - Article
C2 - 7643301
AN - SCOPUS:0029334790
SN - 0022-3514
VL - 69
SP - 41
EP - 57
JO - Journal of personality and social psychology
JF - Journal of personality and social psychology
IS - 1
ER -