Strangers in a Strange Lab: How Personality Shapes Our Initial Encounters with Others - Hardcover

Ickes, William

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9780195372953: Strangers in a Strange Lab: How Personality Shapes Our Initial Encounters with Others
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195372956 ISBN 13: 9780195372953
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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 similarity is related to satisfaction in married couples.

This relatively short, highly accessible work serves as an ideal supplementary text for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in personality and social psychology. It will also appeal to scholars working in the fields of personality and social psychology and to laypersons who are interested in learning what researchers have discovered about the links between personality and social behavior.

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About the Author

William Ickes is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington. His 20-year program of research on empathic accuracy, which resulted in three international research awards, is summarized in his 2003 book Everyday Mind Reading. His 30-year program of research on personality influences on initial interactions is the topic of the present book. His nearly 150 publications include books, book chapters, journal articles, commentaries and reviews.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195372956
ISBN 13 
9780195372953
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
232
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