Abstract
Three studies examined the perceptions formed about impression managers who enhance themselves indirectly by associating themselves with successful others. It was predicted that listeners would take into account not only the information conveyed regarding the target's attributes and degree of closeness to the target, but also the pragmatic implications of this information, including the speaker's perceived attempt to manage his or her impression. The valence of the depiction as well as the closeness between the speaker and the target were manipulated, and they were expected to have an interactive effect on the perception of the speaker as manipulative. The results generally supported the research hypotheses in demonstrating that the speaker was perceived as more manipulative when ascribing positive characteristics to a close other rather than to a distant other and when associating himself with a successful other rather than an unsuccessful other. The data for the first study came from an undergraduate thesis by Michal Mor and Avner Raz. The data for the second study came from an undergraduate thesis by Gili Kimel and Nimrod Har‐Zion, and the data for the third study came from an undergraduate thesis by Riki Shulman and Yael Naim. All of these projects were supervised by the author. The author would like to thank these students for their help in data collection.
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