Perception of implicit relationships between personality traits by schizotypic college students: a pilot study.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Raulin, Michael L.; Henderson, Cynthia A.
- Source
- Journal of Clinical Psychology; September 1987, Vol. 43, p463-467, 5p
- Subject
- Personality
Rating
Schizophrenia
Social skills
Psychoses
Pathological psychology
Psychology
Students
Hypothesis
Resemblance (Philosophy)
- Language
- ISSN
- 00219762
This article presents a study, in which researchers hypothesized that the difficulties experienced by schizotypic collage students in social situations may result in part from their use of an implicit trait structure different from that used by the rest of the population - that is, the schizotypes will not see the same intercorrelations between traits that are reported consistently by normal subjects. This should lead to a greater variability in the similarity ratings of the schizotypic groups relative to the control group. Although this does not directly test the hypothesis that different implicit trait structures lead to the social dysfunctions found in previous research, positive findings would be consistent with such an hypothesis and would encourage further investigation.