Papers by Ashley Waggoner
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2012
Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2012
Page 1. Information Processing Differences in Active Versus Passive Person Perceivers Ashley S. W... more Page 1. Information Processing Differences in Active Versus Passive Person Perceivers Ashley S. Waggoner1 and Eliot R. Smith1 Abstract Previous work has shown that compared to passive perceivers who view preselected ...
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2009
Person perception research is dominated by studies of passive perceivers who exert no control ove... more Person perception research is dominated by studies of passive perceivers who exert no control over the information they receive. In contrast, perceivers in everyday life can often actively choose the type and quantity of information they receive. In this study, active and yoked passive perceivers formed impressions of individuals based on information from Facebook. Compared to active perceivers, passive perceivers reported greater confidence and ease in their judgments. Passive perceivers exhibited greater confidence (though not greater accuracy) with increased information, but active perceivers did not show this effect, placing a boundary condition on past research. Passive perceivers also liked targets more than active perceivers, a finding that is not explained by valence-dependant sampling by active participants, or by misattribution of fluency or greater sensitivity among passive participants. These provocative findings highlight the need to account for active and interactive processes in person perception rather than continuing to focus on passive perceivers.
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Papers by Ashley Waggoner