Observer bias: an interaction of temperament traits with biases in the semantic perception of lexical material.

ABSTRACT: The lexical approach is a method in differential psychology that uses people's estimations of verbal descriptors of human behavior in order to derive the structure of human individuality. The validity of the assumptions of this method about the objectivity of people's estimations is rarely questioned. Meanwhile the social nature of language and the presence of emotionality biases in cognition are well-recognized in psychology. A question remains, however, as to whether such an emotionality-capacities bias is strong enough to affect semantic perception of verbal material. For the lexical approach to be valid as a method of scientific investigations, such biases should not exist in semantic perception of the verbal material that is used by this approach. This article reports on two studies i

SUBMITTER: Trofimova I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3903487 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature