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Duke, Marshall P. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1977
The existence of two different approaches to the theoretical understanding of social behavior is noted. Presents a systems model as offered by Talavage and compares it with Rotter's social learning theory. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Expectation, Interpersonal Relationship, Personality Studies, Personality Theories
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Marks, Edward L.; And Others – Journal of Research in Personality, 1982
Investigated helping as a function of empathic anxiety (anxiety in response to modeled distress) and individual differences in sociopathic tendencies. Results indicated modeled distress produces increases in anxiety which are positively associated with helping and sociopathic individuals are less likely to help than are nonsociopathic individuals.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Empathy, Helping Relationship
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Wegner, Daniel M. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1977
This research focused on the development and articulation of the attributes given by individuals in describing others. Of special interest was the generality with which the individual uses an attribute to characterize stimulus persons. (Editor)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experiments, Individual Characteristics, Interpersonal Relationship
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Gurtman, Michael B.; Lion, Clifford – Journal of Research in Personality, 1982
Examined the effect of interpersonal trust on perceptual vigilance in a tachistoscopic word-recognition study. Results indicated low trusters had lower recognition thresholds for connotatively negative words. They were more vigilant only for negative words. A manipulation intended to arouse subjects' suspicions about the experimenter was also…
Descriptors: Credibility, Expectation, Interpersonal Relationship, Perception
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Touhey, John C. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1975
As no experimental study has examined the effects of congruency on attraction, the present investigation orthogonally varied attitude similarity and interpersonal congruency in order to compare the two independent variables as determinants of interpersonal attraction. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Interpersonal Relationship, Personality Studies, Research Methodology
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Sachs, Donald H. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1975
The purpose of the present study is to deconfound attitudes toward a particular concept and the belief in the existence of that concept. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Beliefs, Interpersonal Relationship, Personality Studies
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Nowicki, Stephen, Jr.; Blumberg, Neil – Journal of Research in Personality, 1975
The purpose of the present study was to relate subjects' locus of control orientation to the degree of initial interpersonal attraction expressed toward a stranger who differed from the subjects only in degree of expressed locus of control orientation. (Author)
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Locus of Control, Personality Studies, Research Methodology
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Aderman, David; And Others – Journal of Research in Personality, 1978
Given two assumptions: (1) that people expect a stranger to have attitudes similar to their own, and (2) the disconfirmation of this expectancy by a dissimilar stranger generates an aversive reaction which contributes to his rejection, it was reasoned that tolerance of a dissimilar stranger could be fostered by lessening the aversive reaction to…
Descriptors: Females, Interpersonal Relationship, Personality Studies, Prediction
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Geen, Russell G. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1978
The past decade has been marked by mounting public concern over noise as a source of environmental pollution. Simultaneously, research has shown that noise is also a potent cause of physiological stress. This research relates noise to aggression concluding that noise facilitates aggression in subjects who have been instigated to aggress to the…
Descriptors: Aggression, Arousal Patterns, Illustrations, Interpersonal Relationship
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Critelli, Joseph W.; And Others – Journal of Research in Personality, 1976
Examines the effects of liking and knowing on self-disclosure using both self-report and observational measures, obtains separate measures of personal and impersonal self-disclosure, and assesses the utility of the role-playing paradigm for revealing orderly relationships among self-disclosure variables. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Personality Studies, Research Methodology, Role Playing
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McAdams, Dan P. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1980
The goal state of the intimacy motive was defined as experiencing a warm, close, and communicative exchange with another person. Subjects scoring high on the intimacy motive were rated by friends as more "warm,""natural,""sincere," and "loving," and less "dominant,""outspoken," and…
Descriptors: Affiliation Need, Interpersonal Relationship, Motivation, Personality Measures
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Stern, Gary S.; Manifold, Beverly – Journal of Research in Personality, 1977
Internal and external subjects, who previously filled out Rotter's (1966) Internal-External scale, were asked to score the I-E scale of "another student". It was predicted that ratings of the "other" would increase in positivity to the extent the "other" scored as an interval. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Interpersonal Relationship, Locus of Control, Personality Studies
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Shuntich, Richard J. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1976
Previous research investigating the relationship of attraction and aggression has yielded somewhat equivocal results. The present study investigated the influence of two variables, attitudinal similarity and exposure, on interpersonal attraction and physical aggression. (Editor)
Descriptors: Aggression, Data Analysis, Hypothesis Testing, Interpersonal Relationship
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Kelley, Kathryn; Byrne, Donn – Journal of Research in Personality, 1976
Attempts to determine whether the reinforcement value of an altruistic response is a function of attraction toward the victim and/or the affective state of the subject. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Altruism, Flow Charts, Interpersonal Relationship, Personality Studies
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Piechowski, Mary; Millimet, C. Raymond – Journal of Research in Personality, 1980
For externals, any variability in the reinforcing behavior of the "teacher" resulted in greater perceived freedom. For internals, perceived freedom was a negative linear function of the amount of reinforcement. Greater freedom was attributed to a person whose behavior was perceived as congruent with the person's inner disposition.…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Locus of Control, Peer Evaluation, Perception
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