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Category-Based and Feature-Based Cognitive Processes in Job Impressions.
- Source :
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Journal of Applied Social Psychology . 8/1/93, Vol. 23 Issue 15, p1226-1248. 23p. 4 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 1993
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Abstract
- Widely accepted cognitive models of job attitudes suggest that a person's job attitude results from the linear combination of attitudes toward individual job features (feature-based processing). This is a relatively difficult cognitive process. We suggest that people act to economize scarce cognitive resources by using knowledge about job categories to generate job impressions when presented with category-consistent job features. People use feature-based processing when presented with job features that are inconsistent with a job category. Our results suggest that impressions do depend on the descriptive consistency of job features with a job category. The implications of the model for job perceptions in the workplace are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00219029
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 15
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Applied Social Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 9402211117
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1993.tb01030.x