Shared impression formation in the cognitively interdependent dyad

We examined the role of cognitive interdependence in determining how close friends form shared impressions of another person. Cognitive interdependence should provide a processing advantage, such that close friends are more efficient in forming shared impressions and are more successful at doing so....

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Published in:British journal of social psychology 2003-09, Vol.42 (3), p.411-425
Main Authors: Ruscher, Janet B., Santuzzi, Alecia M., Hammer, Elizabeth Yost
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitude
Biological and medical sciences
Close friends
Cognition
Cooperative Behavior
Dyads
Friendship
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Impression formation
Interdependence
Interpersonal Relations
Perception
Perception of others
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Random Allocation
Shared
Social attribution, perception and cognition
Social networks
Social perception
Social psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Third parties
USA
Videotape Recording
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Summary:We examined the role of cognitive interdependence in determining how close friends form shared impressions of another person. Cognitive interdependence should provide a processing advantage, such that close friends are more efficient in forming shared impressions and are more successful at doing so. Under normal circumstances, the conversations of close friends should be marked by little necessity to make explicit requests for information, mutual recognition of who currently is controlling the flow of conversation, and willingness to express differences in opinion. Given these advantages, close friends also should be able to form complex shared impressions that go beyond mere one‐sided stereotypic judgments and that instead resolve apparent discrepancies in the target's personality. However, if the cognitive interdependence system is disrupted by mutual distraction, these advantages should attenuate or even reverse. Dyads of varying degrees of closeness were mutually distracted or not while discussing their impressions of another female college student. Results supported predictions and are discussed with reference to how cognitive interdependence may help close dyads function within their mutual social networks.
ISSN:0144-6665
2044-8309
DOI:10.1348/014466603322438233