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Area of Science:

  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Cognition

Background:

  • Transference involves using representations of significant others to interpret new social interactions.
  • Existing research links face perception with transference, suggesting facial resemblance may play a role.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if facial-feature resemblance can elicit transference.
  • To examine how facial similarity influences social perception and self-concept.

Main Methods:

  • Experimental manipulation of target person's facial features to match participants' significant others.
  • Assessing participants' inferences, evaluations, and self-concept shifts during interaction.

Main Results:

  • Facial resemblance to a significant other activated transference.
  • Participants made inferences and evaluations consistent with their representations of the significant other.
  • Transference led to shifts in self-concept, aligning with the context of the significant other.

Conclusions:

  • This study provides the first evidence for transference triggered by facial-feature resemblance.
  • Findings have implications for understanding impression formation, social cognition, and emotional responses.