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Strangers in a Strange Lab : How Personality Shapes Our Initial Encounters with Others
Overview
Winner of the 2012 International Association for Relationship Research Book Award
Can we predict how well -- or how poorly -- two strangers will get along? According to social psychologist William Ickes, the answer is yes. Drawing upon relevant research findings from his 30-year career, Ickes explains how initial interactions are shaped by gender, race, birth order, physical attractiveness, androgyny, the Big Five dimensions, shyness, and self-monitoring. Ickes's work offers unprecedented insights on the links between personality and social behavior that have not previously been compiled in a single source: how sibling relationships during childhood affect our interactions with opposite-sex strangers years later; why Latinos have a social advantage in initial interactions; how men react to the physical attractiveness of a female stranger in a relatively direct and obvious way while women react to the attractiveness of a male stranger in a more indirect and subtle way; and how personality sThis item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9780199950898
- ISBN-10: 019995089X
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish Date: February 2013
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 232
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