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Salience, Centrality and Self‐relevance of Traits in Construing Others
Author(s) -
LEMON NIGEL,
WARREN NEIL
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1974.tb00098.x
Subject(s) - centrality , salient , salience (neuroscience) , psychology , relevance (law) , social psychology , cognitive psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , mathematics , political science , law , combinatorics
Salient traits were hypothesized as having importance for the individual in two respects: (i) because they allow more effective inferences to other traits (centrality); (ii) because they are typically used in characterizing the self, and thus afford self‐other comparison (self‐relevance). The study reported assessed the differences between salient and non‐salient traits on measures of centrality and self‐relevance, and found support for both hypotheses. Centrality and self‐relevance appeared to be relatively distinct features of salient traits, in that the overlap between them was fairly small. Other aspects of the data are also discussed.