Differentiation among targets in social perception as a function of response hierarchy

Measurement and generality of response dispositions in person perception1

“…The utility of the continuous association method for assessing dispositions appears general for stimulus materials and response modes in person perception. Stimuli including adjective traits (Kaplan, 1970;1971a, c, d), extensive autobiographies (Kaplan, 1971b) and brief character sketches (Kaplan, 1968), and response modes such as trait selection (Kaplan, 1968;1971b), personality inventory completion (Kaplan, 1971b) and the ubiquitous rating scale (Kaplan, 1970;1971a, c, d) have yielded positive effects for dispositions.…”

Assimilation-contrast effects in impression formation

“…Chapanis, 1965), as reflected in his productivity of behavioral labels. In an earlier experiment (Kaplan, 1968), number of words elicited acted as an index of ability to differentiate between social stimuli, providing support for this thesis. After excluding repetitions, females having more than the median number of words were designated as high differentiators (HO), those with less were designated as low differentiators (LO).…”