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Interpersonal relationship
About: Interpersonal relationship is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 22392 publications have been published within this topic receiving 937957 citations. The topic is also known as: interpersonal status & relationship.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the purposes, expectations, and outcomes of adult hospice volunteers of varying ages were investigated, and support was found for the hypothesis that younger volunteers tend to be motivated by and to achieve outcomes related to interpersonal relationships.
Abstract: Combining a life course perspective with recent theorizing on motivationally related agendas for social behavior, this study investigated the purposes, expectations, and outcomes of adult hospice volunteers of varying ages. Specifically, support was found for the hypothesis that younger volunteers tend to be motivated by and to achieve outcomes related to interpersonal relationships, whereas older volunteers tend to be motivated to a greater extent by service or community obligation concerns. Furthermore, in hierarchical regression analyses predicting overall satisfaction, benefits relative to costs, commitment, and changes in self-esteem over 6 months of volunteer service, relationship-related variables demonstrated greater and significant predictive power for younger relative to older volunteers. Service-oriented variables, hypothesized to be more influential in predicting the outcomes of older volunteers, tended to be inconsistently related to these same outcomes. Discussion focuses on the theoretical ...
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TL;DR: It is hypothesized that romantic love serves a commitment- related function and sexual desire a reproduction-related function and the nonverbal display of romantic love was related to the release of oxytocin.
Abstract: Drawing on recent claims in the study of relationships, attachment, and emotion, the authors hypothesized that romantic love serves a commitment-related function and sexual desire a reproduction-related function. Consistent with these claims, in Study 1, brief experiences of romantic love and sexual desire observed in a 3-min interaction between romantic partners were related to distinct feeling states, distinct nonverbal displays, and commitment- and reproductive-related relationship outcomes, respectively. In Study 2, the nonverbal display of romantic love was related to the release of oxytocin. Discussion focuses on the place of romantic love and sexual desire in the literature on emotion.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the history of projection research is provided, which establishes that the interest in this phenomenon is old and has intrigued investigators of differing theoretical persuasions, and that egocentric variations underscore the subjectivity of social perception.
Abstract: Publisher Summary Humans, as social creatures continually perceive others and predict what others think, feel, and, most importantly, what they will do. Various branches of social psychology have addressed questions posed by this basic need for prediction and in specific about impression formation, interpersonal relations, and group stereotypes. It is noted that social perceptions and predictions must be reasonably accurate to be effective. Perceptions of the social world can become destructive if they are grossly distorted. Perceiver's own behavior, values, or their visual perspective uniquely affect their judgments. Such egocentric variations underscore the subjectivity of social perception. This chapter aims to examine these egocentric distortions in perceptions of social consensus. The perception of social consensus is the idea that the thoughts, feelings, and actions of others are similar to one's own. The chapter provides a brief review of the history of projection research, which establishes that the interest in this phenomenon is old and has intrigued investigators of differing theoretical persuasions.
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TL;DR: This study obtained correlations between social network variables and social competence indices that were highly suggestive and it is important to keep in mind that the sample under investigation was fairly small and relatively homogeneous with respect to ethnicity, social class, and even values.
Abstract: This study explored the relationship between friendship social network variables and social competence indices using a sample of 98 young black lower SES adolescents. Analyses indicated that perceived emotional support received from friends and the number of reciprocated best friends in an adolescents' social network were related positively. Multivariate hierarchical regression analyses indicated that perceived friend emotional support and number of reciprocated best friends contributed independently to school competence, peer competence, and perceived self-competence measures. The friendship network's school achievement orientation was related positively to school competence but was unrelated to peer or perceived self-competence. Friendship network density did not add to the variance explained by the other network variables. Methodological contributions of this study include the development of a computer program to map friendship networks and the expansion of network analysis beyond the examination of social support functions.
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245 citations