Distortion in person perception as a consequence of the need for effective control.

Miller, Dale T.; Norman, Stephen A.; Wright, E. M.

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.36.6.598

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“…Although there were no differences in the frequency with which the RT and non-RT police conducted juvenile and adult interrogations, it is possible that the RT police are more likely than the non-RT police to conduct interrogations for more serious crimes. Meanwhile, social psychologists have often demonstrated that, when explaining behavior, individuals are more likely to favor dispositional attributions than situational ones (see, e.g., Brown & Fish, 1983;Martin & Tesser, 1992;Miller, Norman, & Wright, 1978), preferring the notion that people do what they do because of the types of person they are to the notion that unpredictable situations have the power to make people behave in seemingly arbitrary ways. Although there is no reason to believe that suspects interrogated for serious crimes are more mature or competent to be interrogated than suspects interrogated for less serious crimes, dispositional attributions could conceivably skew perceptions of suspects.…”

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Reid training and sensitivity to developmental maturity in interrogation: results from a national survey of police

Kostelnik

Reppucci

2009

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Although research has demonstrated that youthfulness is a risk factor for providing false confessions during criminal interrogations, it is unclear whether interrogation training programs address this issue. The goal was to analyze differences between Reid-trained (RT) and non-Reid-trained (non-RT) police in their sensitivity to the developmental maturity of young suspects. 1,828 police officers, 514 of whom were RT, completed surveys about their perceptions and practices during interrogation with children, adolescents, or adults. Results indicate that, compared with non-RT police, RT police demonstrate less sensitivity to the developmental maturity of adolescents in terms of (1) perceptions of their competencies during interrogation and (2) use of psychologically coercive questioning techniques. These findings have implications for the development of juvenile interrogation training programs.

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Reid training and sensitivity to developmental maturity in interrogation: results from a national survey of police

Kostelnik

Reppucci

2009

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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“…Becker, 1973;Kruglanski, 1980;Miller, Norman and Wright, 1978;Rothbaum, Weisz and Snyder, 1982). The findings are also consistent with the biased hypothesis-testing model in that they demonstrate that a component judgment required for reaching subjects' inferential objectives was biased by a need for structure (Pyszczynski and Greenberg, 1987).…”

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A prognostic utility bias in judgments of similarity between past and present instances: How available information is deemed useful for prediction

Greenberg

Pyszczynski

Warner

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Euro J Social Psych

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“…The setting for Study 1 was in one important respect similar to that in a set of studies by Miller and Norman (1975) and Miller et al (1978). In those studies, as in Study 1, the participants expected to meet and interact with a stranger.…”

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“…I assumed that a more direct operationalization of press, independent of that role assignment, would be the participants' own participative reports of how much they wanted to deal with the target person. Such an operationalization is akin to that of Miller, Norman, and Wright (1978). The present measure in Study 1 was very direct, consisting of two questions tapping the participant's desire to take one role or the other.…”

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Motivation in Person Perception: Role of the Other's Perspective

Steins

2000

The Journal of Social Psychology

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In previous studies (G. Steins & R. A. Wicklund, 1993, 1996, 1997; R. A. Wicklund & G. Steins, 1996), perspective-taking depended on the interplay between 2 variables--(a) press (the relationship intensity between perceiver and perceived person) and (b) conflict. In the absence of conflict, perspective-taking was positively related to press; in the presence of conflict, perspective-taking was negatively related to press. In the present 3 studies, involving samples of German students, the author conducted a detailed exploration of the motivational impact of press on perspective-taking: In the 1st study, she measured press via the participant's wish to deal with the other person; in the 2nd study, via the perceiver's preoccupation with the target; and in the 3rd study, she defined press as a general tendency of some participants to become absorbed in other individuals. All 3 studies included elements of conflict. The results further supported the perspective-taking model and improved the understanding of the influence of motivation in person perception.

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Distortion in person perception as a consequence of the need for effective control.

Cited by 96 publications

References 27 publications

Reid training and sensitivity to developmental maturity in interrogation: results from a national survey of police

Reid training and sensitivity to developmental maturity in interrogation: results from a national survey of police

A prognostic utility bias in judgments of similarity between past and present instances: How available information is deemed useful for prediction

Motivation in Person Perception: Role of the Other's Perspective

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