The group stimulated by erotic words showed significant positive priming effect on impression formation with sexual tendency,while anyone of the other groups didn t demonstrate such significance.

Impression formation on others is an important aspect of person perception and has important interpersonal and social consequences.

This thesis, based on the study of the distance between India image in A Passage to India and that in collective imagination, delves into how Foster s India image inherits and subverts that of the British collective imagination.

Proceeding from the perspective of post-colonialist,this article analyzes the stereotypical Indian images in the novel and their tragic fate of inexorable extinction.