The Effect of Perceived Similarity/Dissimilarity on Confirmation/Disconfirmation Behaviors: Reciprocity or Compensation?

Autor/inn/en	Lifshitz, Paltiel; Shulman, Gary M.
Titel	The Effect of Perceived Similarity/Dissimilarity on Confirmation/Disconfirmation Behaviors: Reciprocity or Compensation?
Quelle	(1980), (35 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Attitudes; College Students; Communication Research; Congruence (Psychology); Eye Fixations; Eye Movements; Feedback; Interaction Process Analysis; Interpersonal Attraction; Interpersonal Relationship; Males; Personal Space; Problem Solving; Reinforcement; Speech Communication; Speech Habits + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Collegestudent; Kommunikationsforschung; Congruence; Psychology; Kongruenz; Psychologie; Augenbewegung; Prozessanalyse; Interpersonale Anziehung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Intimsphäre; Problemlösen; Positive Verstärkung; Speech habit; Sprachgewohnheit
Abstract	In an experiment studying the relationship between reciprocity and compensation in dyadic communication, 96 male college students were videotaped during hypothetical problem solving situations. An attitude scale was used to manipulate subjects' impressions of mutual similarity. Time was used to test development in the dependent variables confirmation, disconfirmation, and looking/mutual gaze behaviors. The results showed that verbal confirmation and disconfirmation were reciprocal; that verbal confirmation and gaze were slightly but positively and significantly related; and that reciprocity (on verbal confirmation) and compensation (on gaze) could be concurrent. The findings also revealed that dyads with similar attitudes did not confirm more than dyads with dissimilar attitudes; conversely, dyads with dissimilar attitudes did not disconfirm more than dyads with similar attitudes. Subject behavior in the dissimilar attitudes condition showed significantly more mutual gaze. In contrast with previous studies, gaze seemed to communicate challenge rather than liking. It was suggested that compensation be seen as agency and reciprocity as communion. (RL)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01