article · Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology · 2004

The Information Used to Judge Supportiveness Depends on Whether the Judgment Reflects the Personality of Perceivers, the Objective Characteristics of Targets, or their Unique Relationships

Brian Lakey, Catherine J. Lutz, Alan Scoboria

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Abstract

People who judge their relationships as more supportive enjoy better mental health than people who judge their relationships more negatively. We investigated how people made these judgments; specifically, how people weighed different types of information about targets under three different conditions: when judgments reflected the personality of perceivers, the objective characteristics of targets, and the unique relationships between perceivers and targets. Participants (i.e., perceivers) judged the same four videotaped targets on personality, similarity to perceivers and likely supportiveness. As in previous research, perceivers based their judgments on perceived target similarity to perceivers, and on target personality. However, how perceivers weighed personality and similarity information varied dramatically depending upon whether the judgment reflected the personality of perceivers, the objective characteristics of targets, or the relationship between perceivers and targets. Implications for understanding how people make support judgments were discussed.

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APA 7

Lakey, B., Lutz, C. J., & Scoboria, A. (2004). The Information Used to Judge Supportiveness Depends on Whether the Judgment Reflects the Personality of Perceivers, the Objective Characteristics of Targets, or their Unique Relationships. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 23(6), 817–835. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.23.6.817.54806

MLA 9

Lakey, Brian, et al. “The Information Used to Judge Supportiveness Depends on Whether the Judgment Reflects the Personality of Perceivers, the Objective Characteristics of Targets, or their Unique Relationships.” Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, vol. 23, no. 6, 2004, pp. 817–35, https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.23.6.817.54806.

Chicago

Lakey, Brian, Catherine J. Lutz, and Alan Scoboria. 2004. “The Information Used to Judge Supportiveness Depends on Whether the Judgment Reflects the Personality of Perceivers, the Objective Characteristics of Targets, or their Unique Relationships.” Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 23 (6): 817–35. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.23.6.817.54806.

Harvard

Lakey, B., Lutz, C.J. and Scoboria, A. (2004) ‘The Information Used to Judge Supportiveness Depends on Whether the Judgment Reflects the Personality of Perceivers, the Objective Characteristics of Targets, or their Unique Relationships’, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 23(6), pp. 817–835. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.23.6.817.54806.

BibTeX

@article{lakey2004information,
  title = {{The Information Used to Judge Supportiveness Depends on Whether the Judgment Reflects the Personality of Perceivers, the Objective Characteristics of Targets, or their Unique Relationships}},
  author = {Lakey, Brian and Lutz, Catherine J. and Scoboria, Alan},
  journal = {Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology},
  volume = {23},
  number = {6},
  pages = {817--835},
  year = {2004},
  doi = {10.1521/jscp.23.6.817.54806}
}

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