Data_Sheet_1_Relationship Seekers Versus Relationship Selectors: Influence of Residential Mobility on How to Evaluate Others.DOCX

The present study examined the effect of residential mobility on impression formation. In the study, participants were first engaged in a residential mobility priming task where they were asked to imagine and describe either frequent moving life (high-mobility condition) or less frequent moving life (low-mobility condition). They then evaluated their attitudes toward four types of target persons: competent vs. incompetent and warm vs. cold. As a result, in the high-mobility condition, the effect of competence was observed only when participants evaluated a warm person, whereas in the low-mobility condition, it appeared only when participants evaluated a cold person. The potential influence of individual residential mobility on the relationship formation is also discussed.

本研究探讨了居住流动性（residential mobility）对印象形成的影响。实验中，参与者首先完成一项居住流动性启动任务，要求其想象并描述频繁迁居的生活（高流动性组）或低频迁居的生活（低流动性组）。随后，参与者对四类目标人物的态度进行评价：能力出众vs能力平庸、热情vs冷漠。结果表明，在高流动性组中，能力特质的影响仅在参与者评价热情型目标人物时显现；而在低流动性组中，该影响仅在评价冷漠型目标人物时出现。本研究同时讨论了个体居住流动性对人际关系形成的潜在影响。