Research Seminar
Individual differences in complementary interpersonal behaviorsTinneke TimmermansKU Leuven | |
| Abstract: | Interpersonalists (e.g., Leary, 1957; Sullivan, 1953) state that each person’s behavior tends to elicit, evoke, or invite from another person a complementary class of behavior in return. The two basic principles of interpersonal complementarity are: (1) correspondence along the communal dimension, whereby quarrelsomeness invites quarrelsomeness and agreeableness invites agreeableness; and (2) reciprocity along the agentic dimension, whereby dominance invites submission and submission invites dominance. The central question of the present research is whether individual differences occur in these complementary behaviors. Is it, for instance, the case that some individuals do not behave quarrelsome when the others act quarrelsome, in spite of their partners' behavior inviting them to do so? And if so, can we relate these different behavioral profiles to dispositional variables in order to get a better understanding of the underlying dynamics? During the presentation I will discuss findings from an experience sampling study in which participants had to rate their interpersonal behavior and the perceived behavior of their partner at random moments during the day. |
| Date: | Tue Mar 10, 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm |
| Place: | room 02.51 (Department of Psychology, Tiensestraat 102, 3000 Leuven) |