Major findings in impression formation are reviewed and modeled from a connectionist perspective. The findings are in the areas of primacy and recency in impression formation, asymmetric diagnosticity of ability- and morality-related traits, increased recall for trait-inconsistent information, assimilation and contrast in priming, and discounting of trait inferences by situational information. ...

Major findings in impression formation are reviewed and modeled from a connectionist perspective. The findings are in the areas of primacy and recency in impression formation, asymmetric diagnosticity of abilityand morality-related traits, increased recall for trait-inconsistent information, assimilation and contrast in priming, and discounting of trait inferences by situational information. Th...

Which facial characteristics do people rely on when forming personality impressions? Previous research has uncovered an array of features that influence people’s impressions. Even though some (classes of) features, such as resemblances to emotional expressions or width-to-height ratio (fWHR), play a central role in theories social perception, their relative importance impression formation remai...