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Our perceptual systems can create a rich representation of the social cues gathered during social interaction. Very brief exposures or ‘thin slices’ of behavioural and linguistic information are sufficient for making accurate judgments regarding social situations and building these social representations. This is akin to our accurate recognition of static visual stimuli with brief exposures to a scene in the study of scene gist (Oliva, 2005). This thesis examines a specific social cue during social interaction - how the correlation of movement between two people varies as a result of their affiliation. Further, this thesis investigates how we perceive that behavioural cue when making judgments of affiliation while observing conversation. It has already been established that there is coordination of linguistic and behavioural information during social interaction (Ambady & Rosenthal, 1992). This coordination is more prominent when individuals are familiar with each than when they are not (Dunne & Ng, 1994). The first study in this thesis quantifies the variation in the coordination of movement between two people in conversation based on their affiliation. Results demonstrate that the correlation of movements between friends is greater than the correlation during stranger interaction. This experiment demonstrates that movement varies as a result of affiliation and that people could use this coordination as a cue when making accurate judgments of affiliation while observing social interaction. The second study used the analysis of movement correlation to examine how correlation serves as a cue for accuracy of affiliation judgment by observers. Results demonstrate that although correlation was not a significant cue in affiliation perception, participants could indeed do the perceptual task. These results suggest that the perception of social information is multi-faceted and many cues contribute to its perception. These findings are discussed in terms of our sensitivity to more specific movement correlations as opposed to the global correlations used in this study. These studies highlight the need for further investigation in how behavioural cues function within the judgment of social information. / Thesis (Master, Psychology) -- Queen's University, 2012-09-12 17:25:36.484

Three studies were conducted to investigate the moderating and mediating influences of perceiver and target variables in the similarity-attraction relationship. In Study 1, 85 heterosexual males rated the interpersonal attractiveness and perceived attitude similarity of heterosexual and homosexual targets who were either attitudinally similar, ambiguous (i.e., no-attitude-information controls), or dissimilar to the participant. The relative effect of attitude similarity and attitude dissimilarity information on attraction judgments was moderated by the perceiver's prejudice level, but not by the target's group membership. Supplementary analyses revealed that target attraction ratings were only partially mediated by participants' perceptions of attitude similarity. Study 3 expanded on these findings by investigating the combined influence of a perceiver's prejudice level and his personal need for structure (PNS) on attraction judgments for ingroup and outgroup targets. One hundred and sixteen heterosexual males participated in an identical impression formation experiment. As predicted, the relative effect of attitude similarity and attitude dissimilarity information on heterosexual and homosexual target attraction judgments was moderated jointly by the perceiver's prejudice level and by his level of PNS: Individuals who were high in PNS and prejudice assigned lower attraction ratings to dissimilar targets than to control or similar targets, who were rated equivalently (i.e., S = C > D). Precisely the opposite was true of participants who were high in PNS but concurrently low in prejudice: These individuals assigned higher attraction ratings to similar targets than to control or dissimilar targets, who were rated equivalently (i.e., S > C = D). This interaction between the perceivers prejudice level and the attitude similarity/dissimilarity of the target was perfectly inverted for individuals who were low, rather than high, in PNS. Moreover, the role of prejudice i

This doctoral thesis describes a program of research that investigated the social psychological consequences of being a victim of discrimination. A series of four experiments with women, Asians, and Blacks examined how disadvantaged group numbers perceive the discrimination that confronts them. These experiments first established that disadvantaged group members sometimes perceive discrimination but more often, minimize the discrimination that is directed at them personally. Second, the results explain why disadvantaged group members are inclined to minimize their personal experience with discrimination, Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrate that by minimizing discrimination, disadvantaged group members protect their state self-esteem in the social domain, and maintain the perception of control over social and performance outcomes in their lives. Experiment 3 indicates that when there is any ambiguity about having been discriminated against, disadvantaged group members who are low in performance self-esteem but higher in social self-esteem are especially inclined to minimize personal discrimination. Experiment 4 further reveals that disadvantaged group members who are high in performance perceived control and high in social perceived control are particularly prone to minimize discrimination in an achievement context. Thus, disadvantaged group members minimize the discrimination that confronts them because the consequences of doing so, are, on balance, psychologically beneficial. Three of the four psychological processes associated with minimizing personal discrimination are those typically linked with better psychological adjustment: high social self-esteem, high performance perceived control, and high social perceived control.

Photocopy of typescript. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1978. / Bibliography: leaves 116-126. / Microfiche. / viii, 126 leaves

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at El Paso, 2007. / Title from title screen. Vita. CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Texas Christian University, 2008. / Title from dissertation title page (viewed May 7, 2008). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.