Did You See It Coming? : Effects of the Specificity and Efficiency of Goal Pursuit on the Accuracy and Onset of Goal Detection in Social Interaction  

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Palomares, Nicholas A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Communication Research vol. 36 no. 4 (Aug. 2009), page 475-509.
Topik: goal inferences; tactic; context; message processing; social cognition; interpersonal communication; message production; conversation; accessibility
Fulltext: Vol 36, no (4), page 475-509.pdf (443.28KB)

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To test aspects of a theoretical framework on goal detection in social interaction, an experiment examined dyadic initial interactions wherein one participant pursued a goal unbeknownst to another participant. The level of specificity and efficiency at which a pursuer sought a goal interacted to affect the accuracy of the detector’s inference as well as the time of onset for that inference. Consistent with hypotheses, efficiency was unrelated to accuracy and negatively correlated with onset latency when pursuers had an abstract information-seeking goal, whereas efficiency was positively correlated with accuracy and onset latency when detecting a concrete (i.e., specific) informationseeking goal. Unexpectedly, efficiency was unrelated to accuracy and onset latency for a midlevel information-seeking goal. Other results focused on the role of individual differences (i.e., perspective-taking and suspicion in others’ motives) and perceived communication competence in the goal detection process. A more controlled, second experiment that employed confederates generally replicated results.

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