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False memories and impressions of personality
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We extended the false memories paradigm to the study of impressions
formation. Traits most commonly used in describing person-targets
were employed to identify the four clusters underlying the implicit
theory of personality semantic structure (intellectual positive and negative;
social positive and negative). Finally, we developed lists including
semantic neighbors of the traits closest to the clusters’ centroid and athematic
(non-trait) words. Participants were presented with these lists
and instructed to either form an impression of a person described by
those words or simply to memorize them. Impression formation relative
to memory participants produced higher levels of false memories of
lures corresponding to the same cluster of the list traits and the reverse
pattern was found for a-thematic words. Parallel results from a gist test
suggest that forming impressions implies the activation of a specialized
associative memory structure underlying the referred bi-dimensional
implicit theory of personality (Rosenberg, Nelson, & Vivekananthan,
1968).
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Social Cognition, 28 (4), 556–568