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Author Pelinka, Anton

Title Attraction and Hostility : an Experimental Analysis of Interpersonal and Self Evaluation
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; List of Tables; PART I: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS; INTRODUCTION TO PART I; 1. Need-Satisfaction and -Frustration Models; Drive Frustration and Individual Hostility; Social Motives as Determinants of Attraction; Social Motives as Determinants of Hostility; Cognitive Factors; The Argument in Summary; 2. Cognitive-Consistency Models; The Balance Model; The Congruity Model; The Dissonance Model; Conclusions About Consistency Pressure; 3. Cognitive Motivation in Social Behavior; Conformity in Physical Judgments; Opinion Conformity
Competitive Coalition FormationLevel of Aspiration; Affiliation Tendencies; Assessment of Cognitive Hypotheses ; PART II: Empirical Explorations; INTRODUCTION TO PART II; 4. The Reaction to Boastfulness; Procedure and Measures; Public Evaluations; Assessment; 5. Attraction and Legitimate Conceit; Procedure and Measures; Validity of Brown's Ability; Quantitative Evaluations; Qualitative Evaluations; Status Identification; Assessment; 6. Valid Boastfulness and Invalid Self-Depreciation; Procedure and Measures; The Interviewer's Professional Standing; Quantitative Evaluation; Qualitative Data
7. The Reaction to Positive and Negative BiasesProcedure and Measures; Identification of Negative Bias; Quantitative Evaluations of a Reportedly Unat tractive Person; Quantitative Evaluations of a Reportedly Unat tractive Person; Symmetry in Cognitive Validation; Identification of Positive Bias; Quantitative Evaluations of a Reportedly Attractive Person; Qualitative Evaluations of a Reportedly Attractive Person; Assessment; Change Toward a Valid Evaluation; Changes in Attractiveness; 8. Cognitive Validation and Self-Evaluation; Procedure and Measures; Questionnaire Reactions
Personal Self-EvaluationsReactions Revealed in the Memoranda; Assessment; 9. The Outcome of a Self-Evaluation Conflict; Procedure and Measures; Mild Norm Violation; Severe Norm Violation; Defensive Opportunity; Evidence on the Violation of Norms; Defensive Opportunity; Self-Justifying versus Self-Corrective Attitudes; Defensive Self-Evaluation; Assessment; 10. The Projection of Unfavorable Personality Characteristics; Procedure and Measures; Self-Evaluation, Partner Similarity, and Informa tion Disclosure; Projection of Masculinity and Homosexuality; Projection of Emotional Characteristics
Assessment11. Self-Validation and Competitive Behavior; Procedure and Measures; The Creation of High and Low Self-Evaluation; Competitive Choice Behavior; Assessment; Procedure and Measures; Effectiveness of the Self-Evaluation Induction; Amount of Reward Desired; 12. Recapitulation and Perspective; Subject Index; Name Index
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Subject Interpersonal relations.
Interpersonal relations
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351315319
1351315315