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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