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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"; Relationship partners"”.
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Contextual Behavioral Influences of Perceptions of Relationship Partners: An Analogue Study
… decisions regarding continued participation in a relationship). An analogue preparation was used to examine the effects of available information, learning history, and motivational variables on interpersonal perceptions. Results from 89 participants indicated that providing clear discriminative …
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Experience and expression of emotions in relationships.
… theoretical model of display rule negotiation in relationships was developed. It was predicted that perceived appropriateness and management of negative emotions would be lower in undeveloped relationships than developed relationships and lower than positive emotions in both relationship contexts. …
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In the Eye of the Beholder: Perceptions of Compensation Mediate the Effects of Attachment Style and Transgression Severity on Relationship Satisfaction
… with their interpersonal and romantic relationships. The current research was conducted in order to examine the role of a romantic partner’s compensatory behaviors in influencing relationship satisfaction as well as examine the role of attachment style in moderating these effects. …
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Implicit Theories of Leader-Follower Relationships
… individuals’ beliefs about the nature of relationships (separate from beliefs about relationship partners) as an important driver of relationship-directed affect, cognition, and behavior (e.g., Knee, 1998). The goal of this dissertation is to develop a valid, psychometrically sound measure …
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Conversation Pieces: The Role of Products in Facilitating Conversation
<p>Positive social interactions and relationships are a fundamental human need, but it is not always easy to initiate conversations with potential relationship partners. Seven studies show the role that conversation pieces, or products that elicit questions and comments from others, can play in …
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Negotiated Forgiveness in Parent-Child Relationships: Investigating Links to Politeness, Wellness and Sickness
Upon experiencing conflict in a relationship, individuals have a variety of response options. While one can seek revenge or avoid that person, another option – forgiveness – can repair the relationship and foster health for both relationship partners. In coming together to confront the conflict and …
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Negotiated Forgiveness in Parent-Child Relationships: Investigating Links to Politeness, Wellness and Sickness
Upon experiencing conflict in a relationship, individuals have a variety of response options. While one can seek revenge or avoid that person, another option – forgiveness – can repair the relationship and foster health for both relationship partners. In coming together to confront the conflict and …
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The Real Virtual World: Connectivity and Techno-mediation in the Lives of College Students
… negotiate, establish and maintain interpersonal relationships among college students. Using in-depth interview and online participant observation, I explore the relationship between technological communication and social behavior, interpersonal relationships and social networks. I focus on three …
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Warm, Competent, or Both? : Trait Perception in Friendship, Acquaintanceship, Siblings, and Romantic Relationship: Explicit, Implicit, and Transgression Studies
… trait preference or what we find desirable in a relationship partner such as a friend, a romantic partner, or a colleague are abundant. However, the evidence from the actual choice paradigm is not as substantial. Thus, the thesis focused on the established relationships by asking participants to …
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Interpersonal Emotion Dynamics in Mother-Daughter Dyads during Adolescence
… their associations with psychosocial adjustment—relationship quality and internalizing symptoms. This dissertation was informed by theoretical approaches that assert that humans are a fundamentally social species (Beckes & Coan, 2011), and that momentary features of interpersonal dynamics …
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Mitigating Negative Perceptions Due to Gender Norm Violation Through Adherence to Another Prevalent Gender Norm
… for women who retain their surnames as poor relationship partners (Drea, Brown, & Sacco, under review; Robnett, Underwood, Nelson, & Anderson, 2016).</p> <p>Another historically important norm for women, in addition to men, is desiring children after marriage, a convention oft considered …
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Transaction Cost Economics: An Analysis of Commitment in Asymmetrical Insurer-Broker Dyads. An Exploratory Case Study of ING Canada and its Distribution Counterparties
… particularly as it relates to business relationships. Knowledge of commitment continues to advance and has begun splintering and applied into specific and narrow fields. The particular field of interest in this study surrounds commitment levels in business relationships within property …
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Interpersonal functioning and depression: Reassurance seeking, negative self-verification, and the integration of sociotropic and autonomous personality styles.
… cycle of interactions wherein rejection by relationship partners may exacerbate depressive symptoms. Reassurance-seeking and negative self-verification are two theoretically based moderators of the rejection-depression relationship. Sociotropy and autonomy are two personality styles believed …
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Relationship Norm Strength: Measurement Structure, Dyadic Interdependence, Correlates, Causes and Consequences
The study of norms and close relationships are two pillars of social psychological scholarship, yet the two topics are rarely studied in tandem. When relationship norms have been the subject of empirical study, researchers have focused on evaluating the importance of their content for relational …