Arousal and Subjective Significance Shapes Stimuli Interpretation across Warmth Vs. Competence Dimensions.

ABSTRACT: The current study sought to examine the impact of incidental activation defined as arousal and subjective significance, both represented in connotations of verbal materials, on social perception of unknown and thus ambiguous objects, in terms of two basic dimensions of social cognition: warmth and competence. Arousal was expected to promote interpretation of ambiguous stimuli in terms of warmth, while subjective significance in terms of competence. This means that both activation and social perception may be treated as examples dual-mind systems functioning. Sixty participants (30 women) were exposed to two subsequent tasks. The first involved memorizing 135 words (manipulation prepared in a factorial design contrasting 3 levels of arousal and 3 levels of subjective significance), and the

SUBMITTER: Imbir KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6208855 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature