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This experiment was designed to evaluate simple arithmetic models of personality impression formation by utilizing a representative method of stimulus presentation and a rigorous scaling technique—multidimensional successive intervals. The Ss judged the similarity between their impressions of pairs of hypothetical stimulus people described by trait adjectives. Four well-defined, stable dimensions emerged, against which predictions from Simple Adding and Averaging models were evaluated. Results indicated that more sophisticated models are required when the judgment task becomes more complex.
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1. This research was supported in part by the University of Western Ontario research fund and by Grant No. 151 from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation.
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Partington, J.T., Jackson, D.N. A multidimensional scaling evaluation of alternative models in personality impression formation. Psychon Sci 10, 331–332 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331546
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331546