The iterative nature of person construal: Evidence from event-related potentials.

ABSTRACT: Recently, a dynamic-interactive model of person construal (DI model) has been proposed, whereby the social categories a person represents are determined on the basis of an iterative integration of bottom-up and top-down influences. The current study sought to test this model by leveraging the high temporal resolution of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) as 65 participants viewed male faces that varied by race (White vs Black), fixating either between the eyes or on the forehead. Within face presentations, the effect of fixation, meant to vary bottom-up visual input, initially was large but decreased across early latency neural responses identified by a principal components analysis (PCA). In contrast, the effect of race, reflecting a combination of top-down and bottom-up factors, initi

SUBMITTER: Volpert-Esmond HI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5490674 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature