Strangers in a Strange Lab
How Personality Shapes Our Initial Encounters with Others
Published on 27. August 2009
229 pages
978-0-19-970667-9 (ISBN)
Description
BWinner of the 2012 International Association for Relationship Research Book Award/B
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.
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Person
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 IEveryday Mind Reading/I. His 30-year program of research on personality influences on initial interactions is the topic of the present book. His more than 160 publications include books, book chapters, journal articles, commentaries, and reviews.
Content
1. Some People, Other People
2. Strangers in a Strange Lab
3. Sex
4. Race / Ethnicity
5. Birth Order
6. Physical Attractiveness
7. The ITaijitu/I of Androgyny
8. The Big Five
9. Shyness and Self-Consciousness
10. Self-Monitoring
11. How It All Adds Up: An Integration
