School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
PLoS One. 2022 Jun 3;17(6):e0269393. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269393. eCollection 2022.
To investigate impression formation, researchers tend to rely on statements that describe a person's behavior (e.g., "Alex ridicules people behind their backs"). These statements are presented to participants who then rate their impressions of the person. However, a corpus of behavior statements is costly to generate, and pre-existing corpora may be outdated and might not measure the dimension(s) of interest. The present study makes available a normed corpus of 160 contemporary behavior statements that were rated on 4 dimensions relevant to impression formation: morality, competence, informativeness, and believability. In addition, we show that the different dimensions are non-independent, exhibiting a range of linear and non-linear relationships, which may present a problem for past research. However, researchers interested in impression formation can control for these relationships (e.g., statistically) using the present corpus of behavior statements.
为了研究印象形成，研究人员往往依赖于描述一个人行为的陈述（例如，“亚历克斯在背后嘲笑别人”）。这些陈述被呈现给参与者，然后让他们对这个人的印象进行评价。然而，一组行为陈述的生成成本很高，而且预先存在的语料库可能已经过时，并且可能无法衡量感兴趣的维度。本研究提供了一个规范的 160 个当代行为陈述的语料库，这些陈述在与印象形成相关的 4 个维度上进行了评价：道德、能力、信息量和可信度。此外，我们还表明，不同的维度不是独立的，它们之间存在着一系列线性和非线性关系，这可能是过去研究中的一个问题。然而，对印象形成感兴趣的研究人员可以使用本行为陈述语料库来控制这些关系（例如，通过统计方法）。
