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Do Agency and Communion Explain the Relationship Between Perceiver and Target Effects in Interpersonal Perception? A
Titus Schauf1, Michael Dufner2,3, Steffen Nestler1
1University of Münster, Germany.
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin
|July 12, 2022
Summary
Generalized reciprocity, how we perceive others and how they perceive us, varies by attribute type. Communal attributes like friendliness show more positive reciprocity than agentic traits such as assertiveness.
Area of Science:
- Social Psychology
- Interpersonal Perception
Background:
- Generalized reciprocity describes the link between how individuals perceive others and how they are perceived in return.
- This study investigates whether the content domain of attributes influences the strength and direction of generalized reciprocity.
Approach:
- A meta-analysis synthesized findings from 64 primary studies involving 17,561 participants.
- A multilevel meta-analytical random effects model was employed to analyze the correlations between perceiver and target effects.
Key Points:
- Reciprocity correlations were near zero for agentic attributes (r = -0.05).
- Reciprocity correlations increased with communal content, reaching r = 0.18 for primarily communal attributes.
- The degree of agentic versus communal content significantly moderated generalized reciprocity.
Conclusions:
- Generalized reciprocity is not uniform but depends on whether attributes are agentic or communal.
- Findings support the hypothesis that communal attributes elicit more positive generalized reciprocity than agentic attributes.
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