Información personal vs. catagorial y juicios evaluativos en sujetos con diferentes teorías implícitas
ISSN: 0213-4748, 1579-3680
Year of publication: 1995
Volume: 10
Issue: 1
Pages: 17-30
Type: Article
More publications in: International Journal of Social Psychology, Revista de Psicología Social
Abstract
The aim of this work is to examine whether the effect of the personal information in evaluative judgments may change as a function of observers' beliefs. A sample of students was asked to evaluate different characters from several short stories. In these stories, the character's social category (German vs Spanish mainlander tourist visiting Canary Islands) and behavior (favorable vs unfavorable) were manipulated. The results confirmed that students with different theories about tourism (the critical theory, the economic theory, and the leisure theory) also made different judgments about tourists. Likewise, an interaction between personal information and categorical information was detected. This result is interpreted in the light of complexity-extremity theory (Linville, S7 982