Study-Social-Psychology: About impression

 When people have information about the person whom they don't know, they tend to expect whole impression of that person from that fragmental information.

Laboratory of Ash

In Ash's lab, there are 2 lists.(List A, List B)

There are some glossaries of words except for one word. It means that one word is different between List A and List B.

On List A, this one word is "warm" and on list B, "indifferent".

People try to deduce that person's personality from that information.

As a result, people who had information from list A "warm" have better impression toward this person than people who had it from list B "indifferent".

Whole impression is constituted of each information by being synthesized from it.

And that renews the new impression.

In information we have, we call it as central featured information that information which has huge influence on whole impression.

And we call it as peripheral featured information that it is other than central featured information.

Order of information added also has relation to changing impression.

When we hear the first word, it will be the first impression. And added information is collateral.