Ariel University and the Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo.
J Soc Psychol. 2024 Mar 3;164(2):153-168. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2022.2041537. Epub 2022 Mar 13.
We study the effect of perceivers' health conditions on their judgments of the well-being of target people (their judgments of the targets' day-to-day physical difficulties) based on information about the targets' health conditions. We develop a model which suggests that this effect depends on the similarity between perceivers' and targets' health: The perceiver's well-being is used as an anchor and the judgment of the target's well-being is either assimilated toward or contrasted away from this anchor, depending on the similarity between the subject's and target's health. Based on this model we derive and test the correlation-trend hypothesis which states that the higher the similarity between perceivers' and targets' conditions, the more positive the correlation between perceivers' conditions and their judgments of the targets well-being.
我们研究了知觉者的健康状况对他们基于目标人群健康状况信息判断目标人群福祉的影响（他们对目标人群日常身体困难的判断）。我们提出了一个模型，该模型表明这种影响取决于知觉者和目标者健康状况的相似性：知觉者的健康状况被用作锚点，而对目标者健康状况的判断则根据主体和目标者健康状况的相似性，向这个锚点同化或对比。基于这个模型，我们推导出并测试了相关趋势假说，该假说指出，知觉者和目标者状况之间的相似度越高，知觉者状况与他们对目标者福祉的判断之间的相关性就越积极。
