Dr. Susanne Quadflieg "Rational impression formation: Making sense of other people's encounters", 11.11.2019

Witnessing how people treat each other, even if only briefly, can prompt farreaching
and long‐lasting social inferences about them. Such inferences can
concern people’s type of acquaintance (e.g., whether they are strangers, friends,
or family) or interpersonal motives (e.g., whether they intend to share,
reciprocate, negotiate, or dominate), but also their mental abilities (e.g., their
capacity for empathy) and personality (e.g., their trustworthiness). Despite their
everyday relevance, interaction‐based impressions have attracted limited
scientific attention. To address this empirical lacuna, this talk will present a series
of behavioural and neuroimaging studies that probe interaction‐based
impressions in a systematic and theory‐driven manner.