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Erschienen in: Marketing Letters 3/2007

01.09.2007

Nonverbal cues-based first impressions: Impression formation through exposure to static images

verfasst von: Rebecca Walker Naylor

Erschienen in: Marketing Letters | Ausgabe 3/2007

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Abstract

Consumers often make judgments about service providers based solely on their photograph (e.g., on a billboard, on the Internet) before interacting with them face-to-face. This first impression is important for marketers to understand because it influences service provider selection and evaluation. This research explores the nature and subsequent influence of initial judgments made from static images. The results of two studies indicate that (1) judgments based on nonverbal cues can be surprisingly accurate, particularly of personality traits relevant to the domain in which the target is being judged, and (2) initial nonverbal cues-based judgments influence subsequent judgments of a target’s actions.

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Fußnoten
1
The extant research on static images has focused on judgments of personality and character traits (e.g., honesty, intelligence, health, etc.). Our research is the first, to our knowledge, to examine the accuracy of judgments of an unknown target’s job performance made on the basis of static images.
 
2
The photographs used in this research contain physical appearance cues (of which general physical attractiveness is one element) and static representations of some kinesic cues (facial expression and eye gaze).
 
3
All photographs and performance measures used were obtained with permission from the targets.
 
4
To ensure true thin-slice judgments, participants in each study were also asked if they had ever seen or met the target before the study. No participants indicated that they had seen or met the targets before.
 
5
The reader may note that some relatively large correlations in Tables 1 and 2 are not statistically significant. This is because, following Ambady and Rosenthal (1993), targets are used as the unit of analysis rather than judges (participants). Because correlations were computed across judges, study 1A has an n of five targets (financial consultants) and study 1B an n of six targets (professors) vs an n corresponding to the number of participants. This analysis resulted in three degrees of freedom in the financial consultant study and four degrees of freedom in the professor study. The critical value for r at three degrees of freedom (at the p < 0.05 level) is a correlation of 0.878. The critical value for r at four degrees of freedom (at the p < 0.05 level) is .811.
 
6
Both Cohen’s d (reported in the text) and r 2 (reported in Tables 1 and 2) are indicators of the large effect sizes found in both studies 1A and 1B.
 
7
Although the paragraph was originally used by Srull and Wyer (1979) in a category accessibility study, we elected to use it here because it was designed to be ambiguous in regards to a specific personality trait. Because the target’s purported actions in the paragraph can be interpreted as either hostile or not, judgments made by participants of the target’s hostility are primarily influenced by the perceivers’ initial nonverbal cues-based impression rather than by cues in the written paragraph.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Nonverbal cues-based first impressions: Impression formation through exposure to static images
verfasst von
Rebecca Walker Naylor
Publikationsdatum
01.09.2007
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Marketing Letters / Ausgabe 3/2007
Print ISSN: 0923-0645
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-059X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11002-007-9010-5

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