{"id":4415,"date":"2018-09-21T19:42:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2018-09-21T19:48:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:48:47","slug":"personality-and-social-interaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/personality\/personality-and-social-interaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Personality and Social Interaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><u>Selection\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/u><\/em><\/strong>= We choose the environment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Cdn be trividl \/ importdnt.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Is determined by our persondlity<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Whether we wdnt to interdct is determined by the persondlity of dnother<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Selection of partner hypotheses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Similarity hypothesis\n<ul>\n<li>People with similar traits are attracted to each other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Complementarity hypothesis\n<ul>\n<li>People with complementary traits are attracted to each other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Conclusion: Across a great majority of studies the similarity hypothesis was right.<\/p>\n<p>Assortative mating phenomenon = People select people to be their partner who are similar to them.<\/p>\n<p>Research by Botwin and colleagues: There is a strong correlation between desired characteristics and those of the actual partner.<\/p>\n<p><em>Speed ddting resedrch by Asendorpf dnd colledgues:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Men: physical characteristics<\/li>\n<li>Women: additional traits<\/li>\n<li>Little evidence for the similarity hypothesis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Conclusion:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Simildrity with pdrtner dnd desired pdrtner<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Not with speed ddting<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Relationship satisfaction is not due to similarity but to the personality of the partner.<\/p>\n<h1>Traits that play a role in relationship satisfaction<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>High Agreeableness<\/li>\n<li>High Conscientiousness<\/li>\n<li>High Openness<\/li>\n<li>Low Neuroticism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Traits that play a role in the prediction of divorce<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>High Neuroticism<\/li>\n<li>Low Conscientiousness<\/li>\n<li>Low Agreeableness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Higher extraversion \uf0e0 more likely to enter a relationship<\/p>\n<p>Higher extraversion \uf0e0 more likely to break up<\/p>\n<p><strong>To what extend do personality traits and personality similarity play a role in the selection of friends?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Important, but different contributions from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extraversion (select more people to be friends)<\/li>\n<li>Agreeable (selected by more people to be friend)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Later research: The role of personality profile similarity and friendship intensity.<\/p>\n<p>Examined effects of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Actual similarity (not an important predictor for friendship intensity)<\/li>\n<li>Perceived similarity<\/li>\n<li>Peer-rated similarity (= similarity of more people\u2019s ratings)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><em><u>Evocation<\/u><\/em><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Personality traits in others evoke responses in us and the other way around<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What elicits anger and rage? &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 High neuroticism<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low conscientiousness<\/li>\n<li>Low agreeableness<\/li>\n<li>Low openness<\/li>\n<li>High dominance (subfacet of E)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Personality can evoke support<\/p>\n<h2><em><u>Manipulation<\/u><\/em><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Personality is linked to ways we try to influence and manipulate others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Manipulation techniques (Buss and colleagues)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coercion (forcing and demanding stuff)<\/li>\n<li>Hardball (lying, physical aggression)<\/li>\n<li>Silent treatment<\/li>\n<li>Responsibility invocation (\u2018your responsibility\u2019)<\/li>\n<li>Social comparison (everyone else is doing it)<\/li>\n<li>Self-abasement (being submissive)<\/li>\n<li>Charm<\/li>\n<li>Reason (logical argument)<\/li>\n<li>Pleasure induction (it\u2019s going to be so much fun)<\/li>\n<li>Monetary rewards<\/li>\n<li>Regression (acting childlike to get what you want)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How did they come up with this list?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Act-nomination (Chapter 3)<\/li>\n<li>S-data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gender differences in preferred techniques:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buss (1992) only for regression<\/li>\n<li>Butkovich &amp; Bratko (2009) virtually all techniques<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Clear link between amount of manipulation, manipulation strategies and the Big Five.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>The \u2018Dark Triad\u2019 of Personality<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Machiavellianism <\/em><\/strong>= Using somebody else for your own personal gain.\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t criticize important people.<\/li>\n<li>Say what others want to hear.<\/li>\n<li>Do not trust anyone and never reveal your motives to others. \uf0b7 Make up a false but credible motive if someone asks for it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Success depends on group context and structure. The more loosely a situation is structured, the more successful Machiavellianism is.<\/p>\n<p>Extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one\u2019s own talents and a craving for admiration, as characterizing a personality type.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Narcissism <\/em><\/strong>= Extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one\u2019s own talents and a craving for admiration, as characterizing a personality type.\n<ul>\n<li>Exhibitionism<\/li>\n<li>Overly positive (but fragile) self-image<\/li>\n<li>Self-focused<\/li>\n<li>Uses others to maintain self-image <em>Selection:<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Select specific people dnd situdtions Evocdtion:<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Try to gdin ddmirdtion from others Mdnipuldtion:<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Highly mdnipuldtive<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Ego-centric<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Others hdve to dct dccordingly, becduse otherwise\u2026<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Psychopathy<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selection\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 = We choose the environment. Cdn be trividl \/ importdnt. Is determined by our persondlity Whether we wdnt to interdct is determined by the persondlity of dnother Selection&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/personality\/personality-and-social-interaction\/\">Continue Reading<span> Personality and Social Interaction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}