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The Cue Is the Key: The Relevance of Cues and Contextual Information in the Social Understanding Tasks of the Magdeburg Test of Social Intelligence
Ist Teil von
European journal of psychological assessment : official organ of the European Association of Psychological Assessment, 2015-01, Vol.31 (1), p.38-44
Ort / Verlag
Hogrefe Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Quelle
APA PsycARTICLES
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In contrast to former tests, the Magdeburg Test of Social Intelligence measures
social understanding with a scenario approach. Each scenario is based on one
real target person and includes both social cues and contextual information
about this person in different realistic situations. The subjects' task
is to understand the given social cues and to judge the target persons'
cognitions, emotions, and relationships to other people. However, subjects can
potentially use only contextual information instead of social cues or base their
judgments equally on both. The present study was aimed at examining the relative
contribution of social cues and contextual information. In an experiment
(N = 126), we manipulated the following conditions:
Participants were given (a) only social cues, (b) only contextual information,
or (c) both components. Results showed that social cues played a more important
role in this social understanding task than the contextual information.