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Area of Science:

  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology

Background:

  • Individuals routinely make spontaneous inferences about others' characteristics from their behavior.
  • Previous research has identified spontaneous inferences of stable traits and variable person-related concepts like goals and intentions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the occurrence of spontaneous state inferences.
  • To examine the simultaneous occurrence of spontaneous trait and state inferences.
  • To explore the functional differences between state and trait inferences.

Main Methods:

  • Adapted established experimental paradigms for spontaneous social inference research.
  • Conducted four preregistered studies (N = 883) examining spontaneous state and trait inferences.
  • Conducted a fifth study (N = 97) to assess functional differences in inference representation.

Main Results:

  • Evidence for spontaneous state inferences from state-implying statements was observed.
  • Simultaneous spontaneous trait and state inferences were found from statements allowing both.
  • Participants differentiated between trait and state inferences, predicting higher behavioral repetition for traits.

Conclusions:

  • Spontaneous inferences encompass both stable traits and variable states.
  • Multiple spontaneous inferences can occur simultaneously during impression formation.
  • Further theoretical development is needed to understand the mechanisms of spontaneous impression formation from behavior.