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Task Framing And Perceived Fit: The Role Of Personality, Task Label, And Partner Involvement, Jonathan Gore, Susan Cross Nov 2011

Task Framing And Perceived Fit: The Role Of Personality, Task Label, And Partner Involvement, Jonathan Gore, Susan Cross

Jonathan Gore

Two experiments tested the hypothesis that individual differences in social connectedness moderate the association between task frame and perceptions of the task. In experiment 1, 75 participants completed an assessment of relational self-construal prior to engaging in an interview with a partner. Participants then received an explanation that the interview enhanced either relationship skills or occupational skills. Results indicated that high relationals perceived their partner more favorably when the task was framed as relational then when it was framed as occupational. In experiment 2, 185 participants completed self-construal and agreeableness assessments before completing an interview task with or without a …


Unpopularity And Disliking Among Peers: Partially Distinct Dimensions Of Adolescents' Social Experiences, Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman, David Schwartz, Jonathan Nakamoto, Lara Mayeux Jun 2011

Unpopularity And Disliking Among Peers: Partially Distinct Dimensions Of Adolescents' Social Experiences, Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman, David Schwartz, Jonathan Nakamoto, Lara Mayeux

Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman

The paper examines whether unpopularity and disliking among peers are partially distinct dimensions of adolescents' negative social experience. We recruited 418 students (187 boys, 231 girls, M = 12.12 years, SD = 4.33) from an urban junior high school. These early adolescents completed a peer nomination inventory assessing aspects of their social relationships with peers (i.e., popularity, liking, unpopularity and disliking), reciprocated friendships and behavioral reputations with peers (i.e., relationally and overtly aggressive, relationally and overtly victimized, withdrawn and prosocial). The participants also completed self-report inventories assessing their feelings of loneliness and peer victimization. In addition, academic performance data was …


Menstrual Expressions And Menstrual Attitudes, Terence Hays Jun 2011

Menstrual Expressions And Menstrual Attitudes, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

Women's responses to a questionnaire survery in a Northeastern U.S. college community are examined to determine whether usage preferences in menstrual expressions are systematically related to reported attitudes towards menstruation. While those women who use expressions with negative connotations tend to report negative attitudes, the converse is not true. A striking contrast is noted between familiarity and use of menstrual expressions and, in general, menstrual expressions are not consistently associated with or reflective of menstrual attitudes.


Awareness Of Peers' Judgments Of Oneself, Thomas Malloy, Linda Albright, Stan Scarpati Jun 2011

Awareness Of Peers' Judgments Of Oneself, Thomas Malloy, Linda Albright, Stan Scarpati

Thomas E Malloy

This research focused on children's awareness of peers' social judgments of them, age differences in accuracy attained, and the process by which accuracy is achieved. Children were accurately aware of peers' perceptions of them on behavioral, social status, and ability dimensions in Grades 1 through 6. Older children were more accurate than younger children, yet even the youngest children were able to accurately infer peers' judgments of them. In terms of process, the best fitting model suggested that academic ability affects both self and others' (i.e., teacher and peers') perceptions, and that self-perception is the basis for predicting others' judgments …


Effects Of Communication, Information Overlap, And Behavioral Consistency On Consensus In Social Perception., Thomas Malloy, Fredric Agatstein, Aaron Yarlas, Linda Albright Jun 2011

Effects Of Communication, Information Overlap, And Behavioral Consistency On Consensus In Social Perception., Thomas Malloy, Fredric Agatstein, Aaron Yarlas, Linda Albright

Thomas E Malloy

Three experiments (N = 69, 162, and 201, respectively) were conducted to test the mathematically derived predictions of the Weighted Average Model (D. A. Kenny, 1991) of consensus in interpersonal perception. Study 1 estimated the effect of perceiver communication, Study 2 estimated the effects of communication and stimulus overlap, and Study 3 estimated the effects of communication, overlap, and target consistency on consensus. The strongest consensus was found when perceivers communicated about highly overlapping information about targets who were cross-situationally consistent. Conversely, the lowest level of consensus was observed when perceivers did not communicate and had non-overlapping information about targets …


Agreement In Personality Judgments Within And Between Nonoverlapping Social Groups In Collectivist Cultures, Thomas Malloy, Linda Albright, Rolando Diaz-Loving, Qi Dong, Yueh-Ting Lee Jun 2011

Agreement In Personality Judgments Within And Between Nonoverlapping Social Groups In Collectivist Cultures, Thomas Malloy, Linda Albright, Rolando Diaz-Loving, Qi Dong, Yueh-Ting Lee

Thomas E Malloy

The social context hypothesis states that people behave differently in different social groups because group norms and context-specific interpersonal relationships uniquely affect behavior. Consequently, a person who is a member of different, nonoverlapping social groups (i. e., the members of different groups are unacquainted) should be judged consensually on personality traits within each group; however, between groups there should be less agreement in judgments. This research focused on cultural moderation of the social context effect in two collective cultures (China and Mexico) with different norms for interpersonal relationships. Among Chinese, there was greater consensus in trait judgments within groups than …


Componential Analysis Of Interpersonal Perception Data, David Kenny, Linda Albright, Thomas Malloy, Tessa West Jun 2011

Componential Analysis Of Interpersonal Perception Data, David Kenny, Linda Albright, Thomas Malloy, Tessa West

Thomas E Malloy

We examine the advantages and disadvantages of 2 types of analyses used in interpersonal perception studies: componential and noncomponential. Componential analysis of interpersonal perception data (Kenny, 1994) partitions a judgment into components and then estimates the variances of and the correlations between these components. A noncomponential analysis uses raw scores to analyze interpersonal perception data. Three different research areas are investigated: consensus of perceptions across social contexts, reciprocity of attraction, and individual differences in self-enhancement. Finally, we consider criticisms of componential analysis. We conclude that interpersonal perception data necessarily have components (e.g., perceiver, target, measure, and their interactions), and that …


Multiple And Single Interaction Dyadic Research Designs, Thomas Malloy, Linda Albright Jun 2011

Multiple And Single Interaction Dyadic Research Designs, Thomas Malloy, Linda Albright

Thomas E Malloy

During the last 2 decades, psychologists increasingly have studied human interaction in a social rather than in an asocial context. Although this ecological approach to the study of social interaction signifies the vitality of social psychology, the design and analysis of this research presents challenges that are not encountered in an asocial context. This article surveys a set of multiple interaction designs and associated analytic strategies that permit estimation of individual and dyadic phenomena. In addition, new analytic approaches to the hierarchically nested dyadic design (a special case of the multiple interaction design) that is used in studies of personal …


Interpersonal Perception And Metaperception In Nonoverlapping Social Groups, Thomas Malloy, Linda Albright, David Kenny, Fredric Agatstein, Lynn Winquist Jun 2011

Interpersonal Perception And Metaperception In Nonoverlapping Social Groups, Thomas Malloy, Linda Albright, David Kenny, Fredric Agatstein, Lynn Winquist

Thomas E Malloy

No abstract provided.


The Relation Of Self-Efficacy And Error-Related Self-Regulation, Jason Themanson, Matthew Pontifex, Charles Hillman, Edward Mcauley Mar 2011

The Relation Of Self-Efficacy And Error-Related Self-Regulation, Jason Themanson, Matthew Pontifex, Charles Hillman, Edward Mcauley

Jason R. Themanson, Ph.D

Relations between a modifiable psychosocial factor, self-efficacy (SE), and behavioral and neural indices of self-regulation, including post-error behavior, the error-related negativity (ERN), and error positivity (Pe) were examined in young adults during a flanker task emphasizing either accuracy or speed. SE was predicted to be associated with larger ERN and Pe amplitudes, as well as greater post-error behavioral performance during task conditions emphasizing accuracy, but not speed. Results showed that higher SE was associated with greater post-error response accuracy during the accuracy condition, but not the speed condition, and higher SE was related with greater ERN amplitudes across instruction conditions. …


Women’S Decision Making: A Contextual Assessment, Safdar Khan Dec 2010

Women’S Decision Making: A Contextual Assessment, Safdar Khan

Safdar Khan

No abstract provided.


The High Price Of High Status: Popularity As A Mechanism Of Risk, David Schwartz, Andrea Gorman Hopmeyer Dec 2010

The High Price Of High Status: Popularity As A Mechanism Of Risk, David Schwartz, Andrea Gorman Hopmeyer

Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman

Particular emphasis is given to the risks and benefits of being popular. The volume reviews research linking popularity to substance use, poor academic performance, and other adjustment problems. Contributors also address the positive side of popularity, including its association with social competence and leadership abilities. Throughout the book, implications for prevention and intervention with adolescents are highlighted.


Cultural Models Of The Self, Susan Cross, Jonathan Gore Dec 2010

Cultural Models Of The Self, Susan Cross, Jonathan Gore

Jonathan Gore

Describes the cultural foundations of divergent models of the self and reviews recent research comparing Western, independent conceptions of the self with East Asian, interdependent views of the self. The chapter concludes with comments on how cross-cultural investigations can continue to inform research on the self and its role in behavior.