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Transference in interpersonal relations: inferences and affect based on significant-other representations

S M Andersen1, A Baum

  • 1Department of Psychology, New York University, NY 10003.

Journal of Personality
|December 1, 1994
PubMed
Summary

People transfer feelings and memories about significant others to new individuals, influencing perceptions and recall. This study demonstrates how personal affective responses shape social cognition and memory biases.

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Area of Science:

  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Affective Science

Background:

  • Transference, defined as biased inference and memory, is a key concept in understanding interpersonal perceptions.
  • Schema-triggered affect highlights how existing knowledge structures influence emotional responses to new information.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the transfer of affective responses from significant others to new individuals.
  • To examine how personal affective experiences shape the perception and memory of unfamiliar people.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized idiographic stimulus-generation and a nomothetic experimental design.
  • Exposed participants to descriptions of new individuals resembling either their own or another person's significant other.
  • Measured memory recall and affective transfer to the target individual.

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Main Results:

  • Participants misremembered target individuals as having more features consistent with their own significant others.
  • Greater transfer of representation-consistent affect was observed when the target resembled the participant's own significant other.
  • Findings support the role of personal affective experiences in shaping social perception and memory.

Conclusions:

  • Affective transference significantly influences how individuals perceive and remember new people.
  • The study provides empirical support for information-processing models of transference in social cognition.
  • Understanding transference is crucial for comprehending basic social cognitive processes and interpersonal judgments.