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primacy-recency effects

LESLIE A. ZEBROWITZ


Subject Psychology

DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631202899.1996.x


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impression formation primacy effects occur when impressions are influenced more by early than later information about a person. The reverse, less common, recency effects can occur when later information supplants early information, when the impression concerns an unstable attribute, or when attention is focused on later information. See also: impression formation . ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Psychology



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