| Abstract: | This study examines hypotheses regarding the extent to which social perception may be effected by differential reinforcement and trait generalization. Ss are asked to judge photographs of faces as reflecting either one or the other of the following dimensions: safe-dangerous, good-bad, reliable-unreliable, and relaxed-tense. Selective response by E (saying "right" after the judgment "safe" was made," "wrong" after "dangerous") produced conditioning of the desired response and generalization to the other dimensions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
