Strangers in a Strange Lab - How Personality Shapes Our Initial Encounters with Others (Paperback)

Winner of the 2012 International Association for Relationship Research Book Award 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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2013
First published:	February 2013
Authors:	William Ickes (Distinguished Professor of Psychology)
Dimensions:	234 x 158 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-995089-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology
LSN:	0-19-995089-X
Barcode:	9780199950898

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