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This preliminary study of strategies involved in personality-impression formation utilized complex stimuli and novel dependent variables, including pupillary activity, syntactic features of verbalizations, and multidimensional trait ratings. Two recurring strategies were found that appear to reflect different degrees of conceptual complexity. Interpretations based on observed contiguous associations between pupillary activity and stimulus information were supported by correlational evidence from the verbalizations and trait ratings.
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Partington, J.T., Colman, F.D. Physiological and psychological correlates of personality impression formation. Psychon Sci 17, 369–371 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335287
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