CATEGORY WIDTH COGNITIVE STYLE AS A FACTOR IN ACCOUNTANTS' PERCEPTIONS OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION
This paper reports the findings of a laboratory experiment designed to investigate the relationship of category width (CW) cognitive style with accountants' perceptions of accounting information. Subjects drawn from large accounting firms in Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne, Australia, were classified into broad, medium, and narrow categories following the test devised by Pettigrew [19]. Subjects were requested to state their level of confidence in decisions they had made after receiving (1) conventional accounting information or (2) conventional accounting information and human resources accounting (HRA) information using a one-group pretest-posttest design. The results indicated a significant relationship between CW cognitive style and the accountants' confidence in their decisions. Furthermore, CW cognitive style moderated the accounting-information/decision-making relationship.
COGNITIVE STYLES AND MEMORY FOR FACES.
Accuracy in the incidental recall of photographed human faces can be predicted from the S's cognitive styles and biases: (a) Ss who were field dependent on an embedded-figures test recalled more faces correctly than did the field independent; (b) Ss who were narrow categorizers on the Pettigrew Cate
Perceptual Performance and the Effective Person
Abstract : The Institute of Personality Assessment and Research carried out an extensive psychological assessment of a group of 100 Air Force captains in order to develop a set of procedures which would identify those officers most likely to be effective in command and staff positions. This particular study presents data collected from 10 perceptual tests included in the program. Developmental material is presented for some of the tests. The purpose of this report is to show the potential contribution of such perceptual behavior to the assessment and understanding of personality. Stress is upon the perceptual performance of the military officer rated effective. Results indicate that the perceptual tests are most strongly related to the areas of intellect and cognitive flexibility. Numerous significant relationships were found with tests in the areas of emotional adjustment, social relations, and leadership. The specific nature and direction of the relationships between perceptual and personality measures are consistent with the assumption that basic personality trends are general in nature and should manifest themselves in analogous ways in perceptual and other forms of behavior.