Brilliant but Cruel: Perceptions of Negative Evaluators.

Amabile, Teresa M.

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Title:	Brilliant but Cruel: Perceptions of Negative Evaluators.
Authors:	Amabile, Teresa M.
Descriptors:	Attribution Theory; Book Reviews; Evaluators; Experimenter Characteristics; Higher Education; Negative Attitudes; Social Cognition
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Publication Date:	1981-04-00
Pages:	28
Pub Types:	Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Abstract:	Two studies examined the hypothesis that negative evaluators will be perceived as more intelligent than positive evalutors. Two types of stimuli were used: excerpts from actual negative and positive book reviews, and versions of those excerpts that were edited so that the balance of the reviews varied but the content did not. The results strongly supported the hypothesis. Negative reviewers were perceived as more intelligent, competent, and expert than positive reviewers, even when the content of the positive review was independently judged as being of higher quality and greater forcefulness. At the same time, in accord with previous research, negative reviewers were perceived as significantly less likeable than positive reviewers. The results on intelligence ratings are seen as bolstering the self-presentational explanation of the tendency shown by intellectually insecure individuals to be negatively critical. The present methodology is contrasted to that of previous research which obtained apparently contradictory results. The phenomenon demonstrated here is explained in terms of implicational schemata. (Author)
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Note:	Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association (New York, NY, April, 1981).
Identifiers:	Evaluator Characteristics; Evaluator Credibility
Record Type:	Non-Journal
Level:	1 - Available on microfiche
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Languages:	English
Education Level:	Higher Education

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