TY  - JOUR
AB  - Four studies were conducted to establich sets of four trait-descriptive terms where descriptive and evaluative meaning components varied indepently. In the first study, 26 judges rated the social desirability of 230 trait adjectives; those terms were selected that were rated as clearly socially desirable or socially undesirable, respectively. In the second study, 10 judges estimated the semantic similarity of pairs of trait-descriptive terms that were either descriptively similar and evaluatively dissimilar or evaluatively similar and discriptively dissimilar. The last two studies replicated Peabody´s (1967) findings. The judges were informed about one trait of a fictitious target person. Their task was to estimate whether this person was more likely to have either a second trait that was evaluatively dissimilar but descriptively similar, or a second trait that was descriptively dissimilar but evaluatively similar. The different approaches led to convergent results with respect to the assessment of descriptive similarity. For 20 sets of four trait-descriptive terms, all estimates were influenced more by the descriptive meaning component than by the evaluative meaning component. Several implications of the findings are discussed.
DA  - 1987
KW  - connotation
KW  - evaluation
KW  - description
KW  - Meaning components
KW  - Soziale Erwünschtheit
KW  - Konnotation
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Deskription
KW  - Bedeutungskomponenten
KW  - social desirability
LA  - ger
M2  - 189
PY  - 1987
SN  - 0066-6475
SP  - 189-207
T2  - Archiv für Psychologie
TI  - Ein Versuch der Trennung deskriptiver und evaluativer Bedeutungskomponenten in eigenschaftsbeschreibenden Begriffen
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-bipr-22249
Y2  - 2024-11-24T11:32:08
ER  -