The Effects of Depression on Impression Formation: The Role of Trait and Category Diagnosticity

Two studies examined the impact of trait and category diagnosticity on the social information processing of depressed and non-depressed participants. As suggested by the Weary, Marsh, Gleicher, and Edwards model of the effects of depression on social information processing, it was predicted that dep...

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Published inPersonality & social psychology bulletin Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 462 - 473
Main Authors Edwards, John A., Weary, Gifford, von Hippel, William, Jacobson, Jill A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA SAGE Publications 01.04.2000
Sage Publications, Inc
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Subjects
Categorization
Depression
Diagnostics
Impression formation
Mental depression
Patients
Psychology
Social information processing
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Summary:Two studies examined the impact of trait and category diagnosticity on the social information processing of depressed and non-depressed participants. As suggested by the Weary, Marsh, Gleicher, and Edwards model of the effects of depression on social information processing, it was predicted that depressed participants would be especially sensitive to the diagnosticity of the available information when forming an impression of another person. In Study 1, depressed participants were more sensitive than nondepressed participants to trait diagnosticity when forming an impression. In Study 2, depressed participants were more sensitive than nondepressed participants to both trait and category diagnosticity when forming an impression.
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ISSN:0146-1672
1552-7433
DOI:10.1177/0146167200266005