When navigating the social world, you look for pleasant encounters. You just "wander around" until you find a nice spot to stop. If you are looking for something specific (someone to hire or the love of your life), your search will follow drastically different dynamics!
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Navigating the Social Environment: Linking Motivations, Impressions, and Behaviors Via a Sampling Approach to Trustworthiness - Marco Biella, Mandy Hütter, 2024
Our understanding of impression formation comes from experiments constraining participants’ control over information sampling. This limits our understanding of ...