Prototype Matching in Close Relationships  

Oleh:

Hassebrauck, Manfred ; Aron, Arthur

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 27 no. 9 (2001), page 1111-1122.
Topik: relationships; prototype matching; close relationships
Fulltext: 1111PSPB279.pdf (146.86KB)

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Four studies tested the prototype - matching model that people use the prototype of a good relationship to evaluate the quality of concrete relationships. In Study 1, distance from the consensual prototype of participants’ descriptions of the features of their relationship strongly predicted relationship quality, and this prediction was significantly stronger for distance from central (vs. peripheral) features. Study 2 replicated these results and also found no significant advantage for predicting relationship quality using a relationship’s distance from idiosyncratically weighted (vs. consensually weighted) centrality of prototype features. Study 3 experimentally manipulated a described relationship’s distance from the prototype and found that distance from central features affected relationship evaluations more than distance from peripheral or intermediate features. Study 4 experimentally manipulated the prototype of relationship quality itself and found that correlations of relationship quality with matches with the prototype were more strongly influenced by those features that were increased in their importance.

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