Interpersonal Cognition Research Articles

Interpersonal attachment cognitions and prediction of symptomatic responses to interpersonal stress.

Interpersonal attachment cognitions and prediction of symptomatic responses to interpersonal stress.

Effects of conversation act on conversation strategy and interpersonal cognition

It is assumed that dyadic conversation proceed according to some of each participants' conversation strategies. The strategies are as follows; 1) Receptivity, 2) Emotional expressivity, 3) Cognitive expressivity, 4) Partner comprehension, 5) Contingent comprehension, 6) Self-assertivity. In this experiment, strategies and interpersonal cognition were manipulated by three factors, (1) partners' conversation acts, with high or low expressivity rule, and (2) high or low act of conversation performance rule, and (3) nature of topica. One hundred and twenty-eight undergraduates are asked to rate their level of intention to select a strategy, in a given conversation situation. The results are as follows: 1) Both cognition of conversational purpose for a given situation and partners' expressivity influenced on their conversation strategy, 2) correspondence of strategy prompt participants to active conversation, 3) partners' conversation acts influenced on interpersonal cognition in any situations, 4) social desirabililty in interpersonal cognition is influenced by both strategy and topic, 5) partners' strategy makes participants select different interaction in the subsequent conversation situation.

A Developmental and Cross‐cultural Study on the Interpersonal Cognition of Swedish and Japanese Children

Abstract The interpersonal cognition of Japanese children is compared with that of Swedish children in an attempt to understand how far sex‐inequality in society influences the interpersonal cognition of children. The findings support the view that the sex‐difference observed in Japanese children is the result of the sex‐inequality in the Japanese society: the sex‐difference observed in Swedish subjects is smaller in comparison with that of Japanese subjects and is insignificant in the older children. The development of emotional and conjectural cognition of Japanese children is affected by the interpersonal relations peculiar to Japanese society.

A path model of political cognitions and attitudes, communication and voting behavior in a congressional election

A path model was developed to assess the effects of early campaign cognitions and attitudes on media use and interpersonal communication, subsequent cognitions, attitudes, and vote. Two interpretations of possible outcomes were postulated—agenda‐setting and uses and gratifications. It was argued that an agenda‐setting interpretation would be typified by a predominant effect of the cognitive elements in the model while a uses and gratifications interpretation would follow from a strong effect of the attitudinal components which would indicate the functioning of selective processes in the communication channels. The findings indicate a uses and gratifications interpretation best fits the data. Relatively stronger effects of attitudinal components on both interpersonal communication and media use and subsequent effect of attitude on vote suggest the functioning of selective processes.

THE PERCEIVER AND THE PERCEIVED: THEIR RELATIVE INFLUENCE ON THE CATEGORIES OF INTERPERSONAL COGNITION.

THE PERCEIVER AND THE PERCEIVED: THEIR RELATIVE INFLUENCE ON THE CATEGORIES OF INTERPERSONAL COGNITION.