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Orford, Jim – Psychological Review, 1986
This article critically examines the evidence for interpersonal complementarity according to four recent theories. The only prediction found to be regularly supported is that friendly-dominant and friendly-submissive behaviors are complementary. A repeated finding is that hostile-dominant acts are frequently responded to with further…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories, Cognitive Processes, Hostility
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Trope, Yaacov – Psychological Review, 1986
A formal model is presented that decomposes the attribution of personal dispositions into identification and dispositional inference processes. Two illustrative experiments trace the processing of behavioral and situational information at the identification and dispositional inference stages and examine attributions as a joint product of the…
Descriptors: Adults, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes
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Dweck, Carol S.; Leggett, Ellen L. – Psychological Review, 1988
A research-based model is presented that accounts for major patterns of adaptive and maladaptive behavior in terms of underlying psychological processes. It is postulated that as individuals' self-attributes are translated into allied goals, these goals generate corresponding behavior patterns. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Goal Orientation