Interpersonal aspects of personality |  |
Learning ObjectivesUpon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
| Identify, define, and distinguish the three mechanisms of social interaction. |
| Discuss the choice of marriage partner as an example of the mechanism of selection. |
| Discuss assortative mating for personality as an example of the mechanism of selection. |
| Address whether people get what they want in mates, and whether this has any impact on marital satisfaction and the likelihood of divorce. |
| Discuss how shyness affects selection into, or selective avoidance of, certain situations, as an example of the mechanisms of selection. |
| Discuss work on the relationships between personality characteristics other than shyness and the selective entry into, or avoidance of situations. |
| Discuss aggression and the evocation of hostility as an example of the mechanism of evocation. |
| Discuss the evocation of upset in partners as an example of the mechanism of evocation. |
| Identify and discuss Gottman's six principles of successful marriages, and relate these principles to the mechanism of evocation. |
| Discuss evocation through expectancy confirmation. |
| Identify two key questions that personality psychologists might ask about the process of manipulation. |
| Discuss the identification of 11 tactics of manipulation. |
| Discuss sex differences and similarities in tactics of manipulation. |
| Discuss personality predictors of tactics of manipulation. |
| Discuss the Machiavellian personality, including a review of how research on this personality style illustrates the three mechanisms of social interaction (selection, evocation, manipulation). |
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education