Browsing Department of Psychology by Author "Ickes, William"
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An EEG Investigation of a Depressive Self-Schema Related to Levels of Processing in Individuals With High Depressive Symptomatology
Gandy, Kellen C. (2016-08-09)Individuals with high depressive symptomatology have better memory for negative events than positive events. The preferential processing of negative information supports the theory of a depressive self-schema in individuals ... -
An Investigation Of Compromise Across Political Parties
Willis, Jarryd T.The debt ceiling crisis of 2011, the government shutdown of 2013, and the extension of partisanship past the water's edge into Ukrainian-Russian and Israeli-Iranian politics are all recent examples of how polarized American ... -
Attachment and the management of empathic accuracy in relationship threatening situations
Ickes, William; Fillo, J.; Kim, John S.; Oriña, M. Minda; Rholes, S.; Simpson, Jeffry A.; Winterheld, Heike A. (SAGE PublicationsDepartment of Psychology, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2011-02)The current studies tested how attachment orientations are related to empathic accuracy (i.e., the accuracy with which one infers a partner's private thoughts and feelings) during attachment-relevant discussions. In Study ... -
Creating And Studying "Instant Enemies" And Instant Allies" In Same-sex Dyadic Interactions
Park, Anna E. (Psychology, 2012-04-11)The present study was designed to investigate the “instant enemy” and “instant ally” phenomena. Forty-three pairs of unacquainted college students interacted in same-sex and same-race pairs for 10 minutes. In the enemy ... -
Cultivating An Attitude Of Gratitude: Testing Moderators Of The Effects Of A Gratitude Diary Intervention On Well-being And Interpersonal Outcomes
Park, Anna E.In the past few years, evidence has amassed suggesting that gratitude interventions can have a number of personal and interpersonal benefits (for a review, see Wood, Froh, & Geraghty, 2010). For instance, gratitude ... -
Does Our Perception Of God Influence Our Perception Of Subjectively "sinful" Behaviors?
Cuperman, Ronen (Psychology, 2010-07-19)The current study investigated the influence of different perceptions of God (i.e., loving vs. punishing) on participants' attitudes towards subjectively "sinful" behaviors. Participants in the current study were 158 ... -
Effects Of Birth-order Composition On The Intial, Same-sex Interactions Of Young Adults
Jacquot, Colette (Psychology, 2008-08-08)Using both individual- and dyad-level analyses, this study investigated the effects of birth order on the initial, same-sex interactions of young adults. One hundred eighteen students (59 dyads) participated in initial, ... -
Effects of Emotion and Social Desirability on Intuitive, Gist-Based Decisions
Taylor, Wyn E.; 0000-0002-4591-2201 (2018-08-31)People often make what appear to be inconsistent, irrational choice preference shifts from sure-to-risky (or from risky-to-sure) options depending on how the choices are framed—this is a form of decision bias called the ... -
Empathic Accuracy And Computer-mediated Communication: Testing The Effects Of The Target Partner's Attractiveness, Self-disclosure And Trust
Rollings, Kathryn Hyde (Psychology, 2009-09-16)This study examined empathic accuracy in a Computer-Mediated Communication setting. The attractiveness of the perceived interaction partner was manipulated and used as an independent variable. Participants were 48 dyads ... -
Empathic accuracy of intimate partners in violent versus nonviolent relationships.
Ickes, William; Clements, Kahni; Holtzworth-Munroe, Amy; Schweinle, William (Wiley-BlackwellDepartment of Psychology, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2007-09)This study compared the empathic accuracy of men and women who had perpetrated physical intimate partner violence with that of partners in nonviolent but distressed and nonviolent and nondistressed relationships. Examined ... -
Evidence For A Simpatico Self-schema In Studies Comparing Hispanics and Whites
Holloway, Renee (Psychology, 2007-08-23)Considerable evidence exists that many Latin American cultures emphasize concept of simpatia or simpatico (Triandis, Martin, Lisansky, & Betancourt, 1984). The purpose of this research project was to test for evidence that ... -
How do thoughts differ from feelings? Putting the differences into words
Ickes, William; Cheng, Wen (Taylor & FrancisDepartment of Psychology, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2010-04-13) -
How Does A Weak Versus Strong Sense Of Self Affect People's Social And Nonsocial Involvements?
Culwell, Michael Shaun (Psychology, 2009-09-16)Does possessing either a strong or weak sense of self predict the number and percentage of one's self-selected social and/or nonsocial involvements? The current study is a retrospective survey study that sought to answer ... -
How Well, And How Quick, Do They Click? Initial Dyadic Interactions Between Straight Women And Gay (vs. Straight) Men
Russell, Eric M. (Psychology, 2015)Past literature and popular culture have suggested that a strong, interpersonal connection quickly develops between straight women and gay men; however, research has not yet explored whether this phenomenon can be observed ... -
Individual Differences in Influenceability and Anti-Influenceability
Robinson, Rebecca L.; 0000-0002-2579-6143 (2017-06-12)Using a dispositional strategy, two studies investigated individual differences in three types of influenceability and two types of anti-influenceability. Study 1 replicated the majority of consistent results found in ... -
The Influence Of A Strong Versus Weak Sense Of Self In Same-sex Dyadic Interactions
Cuperman, Ronen (Psychology, 2008-08-08)The goal of this study was to examine the influence of the participants' sense of self on the behaviors they displayed and the perceptions they reported in initial unstructured interactions. Participants were 82 male and ... -
Latent Semantic Similarity in Initial Computer-Mediated Interactions
Ta, Vivian P. (2016-05-10)The initial interactions of same-sex strangers were investigated to examine the development of latent semantic similarity (LSS; that is, how interaction partners come to use words in the same way) in computer-mediated ... -
NARCISSUS ONLINE: AN INVESTIGATION OF NARCISSISM AND SELF-CONCEPT CLARITY IN RELATION TO ONLINE DATING BEHAVIORS
Tajmirriyahi, Maryam; 0000-0001-6657-5323 (2020-12-10)Nemours studies over the years have provided extensive knowledge about the association between narcissism and romantic relationship initiation. With the increased interest in using online dating sites for finding sexual/romantic ... -
Openness To Experience, Strength Of Sense Of Self, And Cognitive Dissonance In A Counter-attitudinal Advocacy Paradigm
Cheng, Wen (Psychology, 2011-10-11)The study was designed to investigate whether personality variables, especially the strength of individuals' sense of self, moderated dissonance reduction behavior in a counter-attitudinal advocacy paradigm. The study ... -
Personality Influences On Marital Satisfaction: An Examination Of Actor, Partner, And Interaction Effects
Charania, Mahnaz Rehmatullah (Psychology, 2007-08-23)The current research was designed to examine the associations between married partners' personalities and their marital satisfaction. The major goal of this research was to examine the unique predictive validity of 13 ...