The misattributing personality: The relationship between priming in the affect misattribution procedure, need for closure, and body awareness

Yael Ecker; Yoav Bar-Anan

doi:10.1521/soco.2019.37.5.499

The misattributing personality: The relationship between priming in the affect misattribution procedure, need for closure, and body awareness

Yael Ecker, Yoav Bar-Anan

Department of Psychology

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Abstract

We hypothesized that aversion to ambiguous situations and overreliance on bodily cues are positively related to people's tendency to make erroneous attributions of internal experiences. To test this prediction, we examined the relationship between the priming effect in the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP) and two personality traits: need for cognitive closure (NFCC) and body awareness (BA). Across four studies (total n = 3,538), priming in the AMP was weakly but reliably related to NFCC and BA. Further, direct ratings of the primes used in the AMP were positively related to NFCC and BA, and might partially explain the relation between the personality traits and priming in the AMP. The results advance knowledge about the AMP and the personality traits related to it, as well as about misattribution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	499-515
Number of pages	17
Journal	Social Cognition
Volume	37
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2019.37.5.499
State	Published - 1 Jan 2019

Keywords

Affect misattribution procedure
Attribution
Body awareness
Misattribution
Need for closure

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Social Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology

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