BERNADETTE GRAY-LITTLE’s research while affiliated with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other places

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Publications (2)

Attitudes toward Conflict with Authority as a Function of Sex, I-E, and Dogmatism
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May 1974

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6 Citations

Psychological Reports

BERNADETTE GRAY-LITTLE

This study was designed to evaluate the extent to which Ss' desirability judgments of MMPI “conflict with authority” items would vary as a function of sex and relevant personality variables. Women were more disapproving that men of statements reflecting rebellious attitudes and behavior. Rotter's internal-external locus of control dimension was unrelated to attitudes toward authority. Ss who were low in dogmatism expressed greater respect for authority than Ss who were high in dogmatism. These results highlight the paradoxical nature of the dogmatism variable and support the utility of desirability judgments as a measure of personality.

The Salience of Negative Information in Impression Formation Among Two Danish Samples

June 1973

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10 Reads

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7 Citations

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Bernadette Gray-Little

Two Danish samples were asked to rate an unknown other based on two descriptions, one containing praiseworthy and the other reproachable behaviors. With both samples, negative descriptions had a delayed disproportionate effect on the impression formed. The results for Danish subjects are similar to those found with Americans in spite of broad social and cultural differences which would seem to militate against this similarity.

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... Bemerkbar macht er sich, wenn negative Informationen einen stärkeren Einfluss ausüben als positive Informationen. Negativen Eigenschaften wird in einer Gesamtbeurteilung ein größeres Gewicht verliehen, eine negative erste Einschätzung ist schwieriger zu revidieren als eine positive und negative Informationen hinterlassen einen nachhaltigeren Eindruck, als positive (Baumeister, 2001;Briscoe, Woodyard & Shaw, 1967;Gray-Little, 1973). Die Vermutung liegt nahe, dass uns die Negativitätstendenz angeboren ist und es ein evolutionsbiologischer Selektionsvorteil sein könnte, für negative Eigenschaften eine besondere Aufmerksamkeit zu pflegen (Rozin & Royzman, 2001 ...

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Wie viel Bauchgefühl verträgt die „Negativprognose“? Die Gefahr kognitiver Urteilsverzerrungen bei der (intuitiven) Bewertung des Kriminalitätsrisikos junger Straftäter
The Salience of Negative Information in Impression Formation Among Two Danish Samples
  • Citing Article

  • June 1973

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Bernadette Gray-Little

... They also found that the content scales were related to nontest behavior in a straightforward fashion. Gray-Little (1974) reported differences be-tween high-dogmatic and low-dogmatic subjects in the degree of favorability that they attributed to items of the AUT scale. Hoffman and Jackson (1976) showed convergence between the content scales and the Differential Personality Inventory in terms of the areas of health problems, interpersonal conflict, depression and withdrawal, and familial problems. ...

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MMPI content scales: Dimensional structure, construct validity, and interpretive norms in a psychiatric population
Attitudes toward Conflict with Authority as a Function of Sex, I-E, and Dogmatism
  • Citing Article

  • May 1974

Psychological Reports

BERNADETTE GRAY-LITTLE