Implicit Personality Theory

Journal Articles

Slusher, M.P., & Anderson, C.A. (1987). When reality monitoring fails: The role of imagination in stereotype maintenance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 653-662.

Anderson, C.A., & Sedikides, C. (1991). Thinking about people: Contributions of a typological alternative to associationistic and dimensional models of person perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 203-217.

Anderson, C.A., & Kellam, K.L. (1992). Belief perseverance, biased assimilation, and covariation detection: The effects of hypothetical social theories and new data. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 555-565.

Sedikides, C., & Anderson, C.A. (1992). Causal explanations of defection: A knowledge structure approach. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 420-429.

Sedikides, C., & Anderson, C.A. (1994). Causal perceptions of inter-trait relations: The glue that holds person types together. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20, 294-302.

Anderson, C.A. (1995). Implicit theories in broad perspective. Psychological Inquiry, 6, 286-290.

Anderson, C.A. (1995). Implicit personality theories and empirical data: Biased assimilation, belief perseverance and change, and covariation detection sensitivity. Social Cognition, 13, 25-48.

Krull, D.S., & Anderson, C.A. (1997). The process of explanation. Current Directions, 6, 1-5. 

Anderson, C.A., & Lindsay, J. (1998). The development, perseverance, and change of naive theories. Social Cognition, 16, 8-30.

Book Chapters and Other Publications

Ross, L., & Anderson, C.A. (1982). Shortcomings in the attribution process: On the origins and maintenance of erroneous social assessments. In D. Kahneman, P. Slovic, & A. Tversky (Eds.), Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (pp. 129-152). New York: Oxford University Press.

Arnoult, L.H., & Anderson, C.A. (1988). Identifying and reducing causal reasoning biases in clinical practice. In D. Turk & P. Salovey (Eds.), Reasoning, Inference, and Judgment in Clinical Psychology: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment. (pp. 209-232). The Free Press.

Anderson, C.A., Krull, D. S., & Weiner, B. (1996). Explanations: Processes and consequences. Chapter in E.T. Higgins & A.W. Kruglanski (Eds.). Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles. (pp. 271-296). NY: Guilford Press.
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