Impression Formation

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In this line of research, I aim to answer fundamental questions about the impressions people form of one another’s personality traits and other characteristics after social interactions. I am especially interested in how impressions are biased by other factors. In one study, I showed that people bias impressions of others towards similarity by eliciting similar behavior from others.

Bradley T. Hughes
Bradley T. Hughes
Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Perception and Cognition Lab

My research investigates the impressions people form of others during face-to-face interactions, the stereotypes that manifest in these impressions, and how they impact social decisions.