Studies in interpersonal epistemology: III. Anticipated interaction, self‐monitoring, and observational context selection

Multidimensional scaling analyses of information preferences of slide pictures of a target person in a wide variety of situations revealed two judgmental dimensions: social interaction and formality‐informality. Persons anticipating interaction with the target person in the slides and high self‐monitors manifested greater preferences for slides which showed the target person in informal contexts. Verbal access to judgmental dimensions was found to vary with both anticipated interaction and self‐monitoring.

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