Comparison of Cognitive Structural Measures for Predicting Person Perception

Abstract

In a general college population, two measures of cognitive differentiation and two measures of cognitive integration were compared with each other and were used to predict integration of discrepant information in a standard person-perception task. The magnitude of the intercorrelations was very low, with no indication that differentiation measures correlated more with each other than with integration measures. Similar to the results obtained using other global trait measures of personality, the regression analysis employing these cognitive measures showed a low positive correlation with the impression task. The need for a reexamination of the conceptual relationships among these measures and the need to examine the conditions which influence the predictive ability of cognitive measures is discussed.

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