This is an author response to commentaries on our original article (Wu, Sheppard & Mitchell, 2016). We abstract two main themes from the commentaries, and they are as follows: (1) What kind of clues in target behaviour allow perceivers to infer target EQ? And related with this, by what process do perceivers infer the target's EQ? (2) Do features of the target group naturally lead to a U-shaped function, whereby it is easy for perceivers to identify those at the extremes but not those in the middle of the continuum?
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Curr Opin Psychol
December 2024
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy; Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden; Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linkoping University, Sweden.
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Department of Psychology, Harvard University.
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Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Via S. Martino Della Battaglia, 44, 00185 Rome, Italy.
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