1 © 2015 Guilford Publications, Inc. Hajin Lee, Department of Psychology, New York University; Yuki Shimizu, Faculty of Education, Saitama University; James S. Uleman, Department of Psychology, New York University. Hajin Lee is now a doctoral student in psychology at the University of Alberta. We thank Lindsay Hunter, Caroline Fu, and Gina Kim for their assistance with data collection and codin...

This chapter reviews research on social impression formation, focusing specifically on how social neuroscience has contributed to our understanding of this complex but fundamental social process. For convenience, this review organizes around three different ways that people form impressions of one another: secondhand information (being told about someone), direct behavioral experience (interact...

We provide a novel, inferential, account of the trait centrality phenomenon. We suggest that a trait possesses the property of ‘‘centrality’’ to the extent that it is subjectively deemed to imply other traits. Five studies explore four central elements of this view. First, trait relations can be stored as unidirectional rules (‘‘if X then Y’’ but not necessarily ‘‘if Y then X’’). Second, the st...

The first decade of the 21 century has witnessed the rise of Web 2.0 technologies that allow users to create and share content online with friends – and strangers alike. These technologies have generated an ‘enthusiasm for sharing’ as well as privacy concerns that researchers, organizations and policy makers often measure and debate. After introducing the trade-offs of information sharing (Chap...

The systematic study of memory for serial order has yet to find its niche in social cognition. According to the person memory literature, the organizational process underlying impression formation results in a network of associative links between information nodes (behaviors and traits) representing the target. This representation should facilitate the recall of source information and impair th...

Background and Aims: An accurate impression of teeth and supporting structure is necessary to restore a lost tooth structure or to replace a tooth with crown and bridge. Although there are various methods for making impression, putty-wash technique is currently preferred since it is simple and does not require a special tray. Silicone elastomeric impression materials have suitable consistency f...