Author Question: You meet a person at a party and you judge him to be sophisticated, intelligent, humorless, and ... (Read 59 times)

saraeharris · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

You meet a person at a party and you judge him to be sophisticated, intelligent, humorless, and unethical. According to research on the negativity effect, which trait should affect your impression of him the most?

a. sophisticated
b. intelligent
c. humorless
d. unethical

Question 2

Kelley (1950) conducted a study in which two groups of students heard a lecture. The students who had been told the lecturer was warm formed more positive impressions than the group who had been told he was cold.

This experiment demonstrated the effects of
a. central traits
b. motivated perception
c. the positivity bias
d. the additive model