Abstract
Zusammenfassung: Wenn eine Person bei der Beurteilung eines sozialen Stimulus einen verzerrenden Kontexteinfluß vermutet, kann sie ihr Urteil in der dem angenommenen Einfluß entgegengesetzten Richtung an die Kontextinformation assimilieren bzw. von dieser kontrastieren. Im vorliegenden Papier wird diese Annahme auf den speziellen Fall selbstbezogener Urteile angewendet. Hier sollte die Wahrscheinlichkeit, mit der eine Person zu korrigieren versucht, von ihrer Selbstdefinition abhängig sein. Personen mit independenter Selbstdefinition sollten Kontexteinflüsse auf selbstbezogene Urteile für verzerrend halten und ihnen entgegensteuern. Personen mit interdependenter Selbstdefinition sollten hingegen Kontextinformationen für eine angemessene Grundlage zur Bildung selbstbezogener Urteile halten und entsprechend Assimilationseffekte produzieren. In den beiden berichteten Studien zeigte sich erwartungsgemäß, daß Personen mit interdependenter Selbstdefinition sich in selbstbezogenen Urteilen von einem Priming selbstbezogenen Wissens leiten ließen, während Personen mit independenter Selbstdefinition keine Primingeffekte oder Kontrasteffekte produzierten.
Summary: When people suspect contextual influences on their judgments about social stimuli, they may undertake corrective attempts by either assimilating or contrasting their judgements to the context. In the present paper, these assumptions were applied to self-related judgements. Here, the probability of engaging in corrective attempts should depend upon a person's self-definition. Individuals with independent self-construals are expected to perceive contextual influences on self-related judgements as distorting and will consequently show a tendency to contrast their judgements to the context. Since individuals with interdependent self-construals should experience contextual influences as an adequate basis for their self-related judgements, they will more likely assimilate their judgements to the context. In two studies, participants with interdependent self-construals assimilated judgements, as expected towards the content of experimentally primed self-knowledge, whereas either contrast effects or no priming effects were observed in participants with independent self-construals.
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