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    • Social Psychology
    • Cognitive Science
    • Computational Social Science

    Background:

    • Understanding how individuals perceive and structure social relationships is fundamental to social psychology.
    • Existing models often struggle to capture the nuanced, hierarchical nature of person perception.
    • A need exists for a robust framework to model the relationships between perceived individuals and their attributes.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To present a novel set-theoretical structural model of person perception.
    • To explicitly represent superset-subset relationships among perceived person and attribute classes.
    • To empirically test the model's efficacy in explaining free-response social perception data.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed a set-theoretical structural model of person perception.
    • Partitioned individuals and their attributes into distinct classes.
    • Utilized the HICLAS (Hierarchical, Classificatory, and Partitional) algorithm for empirical testing with 14 college students' free-response data.

    Main Results:

    • The set-theoretical model successfully accounted for person perception data.
    • Individuals in superordinate classes with numerous elements (e.g., self, family, close friends) were perceived as most significant.
    • Individuals in subordinate classes with few elements (e.g., disliked or superficially known people) were perceived as least significant.
    • Set-theoretical analysis outperformed hierarchical clustering in explaining the data.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed set-theoretical model effectively captures the hierarchical structure of person perception.
    • The significance attributed to individuals is strongly related to their position within perceived social and attribute hierarchies.
    • This approach offers a more accurate representation of social cognition compared to traditional clustering methods.