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social science subjects > psychology > social psychology > social cognition > attribution and primary effect

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attribution and primary effect  

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  • Definition The primacy effect concerns how one's impressions of others are formed. Thus, it relates to the field of psychology known as person perception, which studies how people form impressions of others. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Primacy Effect, Attribution]

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