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Contextual influences on interpersonal complementarity.

D S Moskowitz1, Moon-ho Ringo Ho, Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay

  • 1McGill University, Canada. dsm@ego.psych.mcgill.ca

Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin
|June 26, 2007
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Interpersonal complementarity, or how behaviors align, differs between work and non-work settings. Context and social status significantly influence reciprocal behaviors in social interactions.

Area of Science:

  • Social Psychology
  • Organizational Behavior

Background:

  • Interpersonal complementarity describes the degree to which individuals' behaviors align during social interactions.
  • Understanding contextual influences on complementarity is crucial for explaining social dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how setting (work vs. non-work) and role status influence interpersonal complementarity.
  • To examine the reciprocity of agreeable, dominant, and submissive behaviors across different contexts.

Main Methods:

  • Event-contingent recording procedure used to capture real-time interpersonal behaviors.
  • Analysis focused on how individuals' behaviors were reciprocated or complemented by others.

Main Results:

  • Interpersonal complementarity was moderated by setting and role status.

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  • Agreeableness was reciprocated more in non-work settings than work settings.
  • Behavioral reciprocity between dominance and submissiveness occurred in work but not non-work settings, particularly influenced by role status.

    • Conclusions:

    • Decreased structure and shared goals in certain contexts may increase interpersonal complementarity.
    • Social context and hierarchical status significantly shape the patterns of interpersonal complementarity and behavioral reciprocity.