Patricia W. Linville

Journal article Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · January 1, 1996 The authors show a new outgroup homogeneity bias - outgroup covariation. They investigated perceived covariation among the features describing group subtypes. Results support a familiarity covariation effect. Those more familiar with a group perceive lower ... Full text Cite

Exemplar and Abstraction Models of Perceived Group Variability and Stereotypicality

Journal article Social Cognition · March 1993 Full text Cite

Preferences for separating or combining events.

Journal article Journal of personality and social psychology · January 1991 This research investigates people's preferences for temporally separating or combining emotionally impactful events. For instance, do people prefer to experience 2 negative events (e.g., manuscript rejections) on the same day or on different days? Do peopl ... Full text Cite

Perceived distributions of the characteristics of in-group and out-group members: empirical evidence and a computer simulation.

Journal article Journal of personality and social psychology · August 1989 This research studied 2 properties of perceived distributions of the characteristics of social category members: the probability of differentiating (making distinctions) among category members and the perceived variability (variance) of category members. T ... Full text Cite

Self-complexity as a cognitive buffer against stress-related illness and depression.

Journal article Journal of personality and social psychology · April 1987 This prospective study tested the self-complexity buffering hypothesis that greater self-complexity moderates the adverse impact of stress on depression and illness. This hypothesis follows from a model that assumes self-knowledge is represented in terms o ... Full text Cite

Improving the Performance of College Freshmen With Attributional Techniques

Journal article Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · July 1, 1985 In an earlier study (Wilson & Linville, 1982), college freshmen were given information suggesting that the causes of low grades are unstable. Compared with a control group, these students did better on both short-term and long-term performance measures. Th ... Full text Cite

The complexity-extremity effect and age-based stereotyping

Journal article Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · January 1, 1982 Hypothesized that (a) people have a more complex cognitive representation of their own group than of other groups; (b) the less complex a person's representation of stimuli from a given domain, the more extreme will be the person's evaluations of stimuli f ... Full text Cite

Improving the academic performance of college freshmen: Attribution therapy revisited

Journal article Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · January 1, 1982 40 freshmen were given information indicating that on the average, college students improve their grades from the freshman to the upperclass years, and they were shown videotaped interviews of upperclassmen who reported that their GPAs had improved since t ... Full text Cite

Polarized appraisals of out-group members

Journal article Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · January 1, 1980 Developed and tested a model that assumes that people have a more complex schema regarding in-groups than out-groups and consequently, that appraisals of out-group members will be more extreme or polarized than appraisals of in-group members. Four experime ... Full text Cite