Influence of Self-Monitoring on Dating Motivations

Jones, Melinda

doi:10.1006/jrpe.1993.1014

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“…High self-monitors ''focus on the exterior'' of a potential date. That is, high self-monitors tend to look for and value attributes in prospective romantic partners such as physical attractiveness (e.g., Buchanan, 2000;Glick, 1985, Jones, 1993Snyder, Berscheid, & Glick, 1985), sex appeal ( Jones, 1993), social status ( Jones, 1993), and financial resources ( Jones, 1993). Low self-monitors ''focus on the interior'' of a potential date.…”

Section: Conceptions Of Love When Individuals Think Of Love What Somentioning

confidence: 99%

Self‐Monitoring and Close Relationships

Leone

Hawkins

2006

Journal of Personality

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Three types of close relationships have received attention from theorists and researchers interested in self-monitoring: friendships, romantic relationships, and marriage. Our review of this literature was organized around three phases of relationships: initiation, maintenance, and dissolution. Across the three types of relationships, consistent differences between high self-monitors and low self-monitors emerged concerning the structure of their social relationships (segmented vs. integrated), the basis for choosing friends and romantic partners (activity-based vs. person-based), and the orientation taken to romantic and marital partners (uncommitted vs. committed). Across all three types of relationships, however, little is known about the processes and consequences involved in the dissolution of close relationships for high self-monitors and low self-monitors. Relatively little is also known about the processes used by high self-monitors and low self-monitors to maintain their friendships and marriages. In addition to addressing these deficiencies in the literature, theorists and researchers interested in self-monitoring and close relationships need to develop sophisticated, causal models that can account for (a) interaction exchanges in the relationships, (b) dyadic as well as individual levels of analysis, and (c) temporal and situational changes in the course of close relationships.

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Section: Conceptions Of Love When Individuals Think Of Love What Somentioning

confidence: 99%

Self‐Monitoring and Close Relationships

Leone

Hawkins

2006

Journal of Personality

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“…Finally, this demonstration facilitates discussion VoL n, No.3, October 1994 on a number of follow-up topics, such as how advertisements influence the viewer and how image-oriented and qualityoriented ads may reflect the soft-sell and hard-sell strategies used in the advertising industry (Fox, 1984). In addition, instructors could discuss how self-monitoring is related to other aspects of social behavior, such as friendship formation (Jamieson, Lydon, & Zanna, 1987;Snyder, Gangestad, & Simpson, 1983), motivations for forming dating relationships (Jones, 1993), and commitment in dating relationships (Snyder, Simpson, & Gangestad, 1986).…”

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confidence: 99%

Linking Dispositions and Social Behavior: Self-Monitoring and Advertising Preferences

Jones

1994

Teaching of Psychology

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To help students appreciate the impact of dispositions on social behaviar, I demonstrate to them how a particular disposition (self-monitoring propensity) relates to interesting differences in consumer behaviar. Specifically, this exerdse illustrates that individuals high in self-monitoring tend to be mare responsive to advertisements that appeal to the image of a product, whereas those low in self-monitoring tend to be mare responsive to advertisements that make claims about the quality of a product. Students in a social psychology course evaluated the demonstration as interesting, infarmative, and effective.Social psychologists have devoted considerable attention to understanding the effects of personality and the self on specific social behaviors (Snyder & Ickes, 1985). Despite this attention to the integration of personality and social psychology, students may underestimate the extent to which dispositions influence everyday social behavior. One effective way to demonstrate the link between personality and social behavior is to show students how a disposition they possess (self-monitoring propensity) is related to interesting differences in consumer behavior.

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“…In addition, studies have shown that, compared with low self-monitors, high self-monitors are more likely to enter into romantic relationships in order to foster useful social connections (Jones, 1993), define their identities more strongly in terms of the situation (Fiske & von Hendy, 1992), display less consistency between their attitudes and behaviors (Ajzen, Timko, & White, 1982), and are more likely to use positive rather than negative tactics to manage their public impressions (i.e., ingratiation, self-promotion, and exemplification as opposed to supplication and intimidation; Bolino & Turnley, 2003). High self-monitors are more likely to mimic another person's behavior unconsciously when they are trying to affiliate with that individual than are low self-monitors (Cheng & Chartrand, 2003).…”

Section: Convergent/concurrentmentioning

confidence: 98%