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- Title
BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY: SITUATIONAL CORRECTION IN INTERPERSONAL COMPETITION.
- Authors
Yan-mei Li; Murata, Koji; Shu Li
- Abstract
We conducted two experiments to investigate whether situational correction occurs when interpersonal competitors make dispositional inferences from their opponent's situationally constrained behavior. In both experiments, participants who expected interpersonal competition, judged a target person's disposition after reading information about a constrained or not constrained behavior of their opponent or non-opponent. As predicted, we found that insufficient situational correction occurred when the situationally constrained behavior of the opponent reflected a disposition that implied a high threat level (competitiveness or high ability) but sufficient correction occurred when the behavior reflected a low threat-level disposition (cooperativeness or low ability). Finally, we discussed the relationship between risk-avoidance and situational correction in competition.
- Subjects
CORRECTIONAL psychology; BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL psychology; PSYCHOLOGICAL factors; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
Social Cognition, 2010, Vol 28, Issue 4, p465
- ISSN
0278-016X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/soco.2010.28.4.465