1986'3, p.133
Petrenko V. F.
Semantic analysis of professional stereotypes
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Experimental reconstruction of professional stereotypes, i. e. of those personality properties which are ascribed to people belonging to particular professions has been performed. Subjects, students of different departments of the Moscow university, were to describe "typical students" representing the given set of the university departments. Personality qualities of "the typical student" were assessed by means of semantic differential unipolar personality scales Differences in the cognitive complexity and the nature of personality constructs pertaining to students from different departments were obtained. Correlation between the centration effect in describing others and peculiarities of the auto-stereotype is discussed.