- Authors
- Michael Dufner University of Leipzig, Germany
- Daniel LeisingTechnische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Jochen E. GebauerUniversity of Mannheim, Germany
- title
- Which Basic Rules Underlie Social Judgments?
- subtitle0
- Agency Follows a Zero-Sum Principle and Communion Follows a Non-Zero-Sum Principle
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- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-353667
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- Personality and social psychology bulletin Erscheinungsort: Thousand Oaks
Verlag: Sage
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Jahrgang: 42
Heft: 5
Seiten: 677-687
E-ISSN: 1552-7433 - publication_date
- 2016
- Abstract (EN)
- How are people who generally see others positively evaluated themselves? We propose that the answer to this question crucially hinges on the content domain: We hypothesize that Agency follows a “zero-sum principle” and therefore people who see others as high in Agency are perceived as low in Agency themselves. In contrast, we hypothesize that Communion follows a “non-zero-sum principle” and therefore people who see others as high in Communion are perceived as high in Communion themselves. We tested these hypotheses in a round-robin and a half-block study. Perceiving others as agentic was indeed linked to being perceived as low in Agency. To the contrary, perceiving others as communal was linked to being perceived as high in Communion, but only when people directly interacted with each other. These results help to clarify the nature of Agency and Communion and offer explanations for divergent findings in the literature.
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DOI: 10.1177/0146167216640902 - Keywords (DE)
- Soziale Wahrnehmung, Agentur, Gemeinschaft, Gegenseitigkeit, Sozialbeziehungsmodell
- Keywords (EN)
- social perception, Agency, Communion, reciprocity, Social Relations Model
- Classification (DDC)
- 150
- Publishing house
- Sage, London
- Project sponsoring
- German Research Foundation
ID: LE 2151/3-1 - version
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-353667
- Qucosa date of publication
- 17.09.2019
- Document type
- article
- Document language
- English
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