期刊
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
卷 150, 期 11, 页码 2321-2345出版社
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/xge0001046
关键词
automatic; social information; spontaneous trait inference; working memory
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31871096, 32071044]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
The study demonstrates that individuals can spontaneously infer personality traits when required to hold social information implying others' traits in working memory, without explicit goal or awareness. This suggests that working memory may automatically integrate social information into hierarchically structured mental representations.
Working memory has been considered an active buffer for processing perceptual representations in a progressive manner, integrating information involuntarily to form structured mental representations. The automatic integration of objects' physical features in working memory has been well documented, although its social aspect remains unknown. The current study examines whether working memory would automatically process social information, that is, extract social information from memory content to form a higher-level social representation. Through four experiments, we demonstrate that participants could spontaneously infer personality traits when required to hold the social information implying others' traits in working memory, without the explicit goal of trait inference or awareness of the inference processes. Results show that participants mistook the memorized words for inferred trait words; such errors were then accumulated and amplified when the information was transmitted from person to person, during which the social information was briefly stored in working memory and reproduced after a short time. These findings indicate that working memory may automatically integrate social information into hierarchically structured mental representations.
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