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Judgement of Emotion: Attention versus Accuracy
Author(s) -
WESTBROOK MARY
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.tb00133.x
Subject(s) - psychology , judgement , style (visual arts) , independence (probability theory) , personality , field (mathematics) , cognitive psychology , social psychology , emotional intelligence , cognition , mathematics , archaeology , neuroscience , political science , pure mathematics , law , history , statistics
An attempt was made to account for reported failures to find sex and related personality correlates of ability to judge emotions accurately, in terms of attention to emotional cues. It was hypothesized that attention to emotional cues is ( a ) independent of accuracy, ( b ) consistent across different types of cues, and also ( c ) characterizes women, and people who are ( d ) socially orientated, and ( e ) field dependent. It was predicted that accuracy is related to ( f ) field independence and ( g ) intelligence. One hundred subjects were tested and support found for hypotheses a, b, c, f and g. A canonical analysis revealed a cognitive style‐intellectual factor relating accuracy to field independence and intelligence.