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- Title
Attributions for Nonverbal Expressions of Liking and Disliking: The Extended Self-Serving Bias.
- Authors
Floyd, Kory
- Abstract
Although the desire to be liked and appreciated is among the most fundamental in the human experience (Maslow, 1970; Rotter, Chance, & Phares, 1972), the expression of liking has the potential to generate negative as well as positive outcomes, which may in part be a function of what attributions are made for such expressions. The present experiment extends a common principle of attribution-making, the self-serving bias, to predict and explain participants' and nonparticipant observers' attributions for a confederate's nonverbal expressions of liking or disliking. Results indicated that (1) for participants but not for observers, expressions of disliking were more likely to elicit attributions than were expressions of liking; (2) participants were more likely to make attributions than were observers; (3) participants made more external, uncontrollable attributions for expressions of disliking than did observers; and, (4) participants made more internal, controllable attributions for expressions of liking than for expressions of disliking.
- Subjects
AVERSION; PREJUDICES; NONVERBAL communication -- Social aspects; ATTRIBUTION (Social psychology)
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2000, Vol 64, Issue 4, p385
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570310009374683