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Spontaneous person inferences from behavior are not limited to traits but also include states: Did Bill not get out of bed because he is lazy or because he was tired? Our research also suggests that trait and state inferences occur simultaneously upon encoding of actors’ behaviors and that they trigger different predictions about future behavior of the same actor.
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Why is it important?
If observers spontaneously and simultaneously consider both, stable person traits and fluctuating person states when making sense of others, what drives the correspondence bias in person perception?
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This paper bundles the results of three years' worth of effort of a PhD project. A prior version of this manuscript received the Best Paper Award of the European Social Cognition Network (ESCON).
Felix Kruse
Universitat Hamburg
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This page is a summary of: Spontaneous state inferences., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, October 2021, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/pspa0000232.
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