TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of cognitive demand and judgment strategy on person perception accuracy
AU - Patterson, Miles L.
AU - Stockbridge, Erica
N1 - Funding Information:
Completion of this study was supported by a University of Missouri Research Board Grant S-3-40971. We want to thank Nancy Carter for conducting this study and Mary Churchill and Anthony Webb for their assistance in coding and data analysis.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - The present study examined the effects of cognitive demand and judgment strategy in performance on the Interpersonal Perception Task (Costanzo & Archer, 1989). The Interpersonal Perception Task (IPT) contains 30 brief, real-life scenes on videotape for which there are objectively correct answers to questions about status, intimacy, kinship, competition, and deception. A total of 142 participants were run in a 2 (high vs. low cognitive demand) x 2 (first impression vs. nonverbal cues strategy) x 2 (audiovisual vs. visual only modality) design. A significant Cognitive Demand x Judgment Strategy interaction supported the hypothesized benefit of a first impression strategy when participants experienced high, rather than low, cognitive demand. In contrast, participants receiving the nonverbal cues strategy had higher accuracy under low, rather than high, cognitive demand. The conditional effects of cognitive demand on person perception are considered and the larger role of cognitive resources in interaction is discussed.
AB - The present study examined the effects of cognitive demand and judgment strategy in performance on the Interpersonal Perception Task (Costanzo & Archer, 1989). The Interpersonal Perception Task (IPT) contains 30 brief, real-life scenes on videotape for which there are objectively correct answers to questions about status, intimacy, kinship, competition, and deception. A total of 142 participants were run in a 2 (high vs. low cognitive demand) x 2 (first impression vs. nonverbal cues strategy) x 2 (audiovisual vs. visual only modality) design. A significant Cognitive Demand x Judgment Strategy interaction supported the hypothesized benefit of a first impression strategy when participants experienced high, rather than low, cognitive demand. In contrast, participants receiving the nonverbal cues strategy had higher accuracy under low, rather than high, cognitive demand. The conditional effects of cognitive demand on person perception are considered and the larger role of cognitive resources in interaction is discussed.
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1022996522793
DO - 10.1023/A:1022996522793
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032217870
SN - 0191-5886
VL - 22
SP - 253
EP - 263
JO - Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
JF - Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
IS - 4
ER -