Too Much Matching: A Social Relations Model Enhancement of the Pairing Game

Autor/inn/en	Eastwick, Paul W.; Buck, April A.
Titel	Too Much Matching: A Social Relations Model Enhancement of the Pairing Game
Quelle	In: Teaching of Psychology, 41 (2014) 3, S.246-250 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0098-6283
DOI	10.1177/0098628314537980
Schlagwörter	Social Desirability; Interpersonal Attraction; Undergraduate Students; Classroom Techniques; Educational Objectives; Games + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziales Bedürfnis; Interpersonale Anziehung; Klassenführung; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Game; Spiel; Spiele
Abstract	The Pairing Game is a popular classroom demonstration that illustrates how people select romantic partners who approximate their own desirability. However, this game produces matching correlations that greatly exceed the correlations that characterize actual romantic pairings, perhaps because the game does not incorporate the social relations model concept of the relationship effect. We conducted a straightforward variant of the Pairing Game that included relationship effects. As predicted, the matching correlation decreased in the modified versus the original version of the game, and the modified game also clarified difficult social relations model concepts for students. Actual romantic evaluations exhibit both consensus and idiosyncratic variability; this modification of the Pairing Game adds realism by representing both elements. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10