Ability to Identify Emotion and Infer Motive in Evaluative Interactions: a Function of Expertise?

Interpersonal evaluation is a component of many formal and informal organizational interactions. The ability to accurately idenitfy emotions and deduce motives from those emotions may have important implications, both for the observers required to evaluate or serve others, and for the targets of evaluations. In this paper, the ability to infer motive from emotive responses in a weak situation would infer motives better than those with short-term training, who in turn would infer motives better than those with no expertise or training. Results found that experts and trained participants were not significantly better than non-experts and non-trained participants at identifying emotive responses in the weak situation. Hypotheses were not supported and limitations and implications of the study are discussed.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Psychology

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year

2003

Author dc:creator

• Bauman, Michelle A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Robert Jones

• Psychology

Statement dc:rights

• © Michelle A Bauman

Repository record dc:identifier

https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/926

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:bearworks.missouristate.edu:theses-1927