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Experiment provided evidence for the recruitment of social exemplars as reference points in judgments of traits. Making a judgment regarding one target-person facilitated making the same judgment regarding the other. As predicted this was more the case when the two targets were of the same sex and similar age (category-specific priming) then when they were not (cross-category priming). Both the category-specific...