Toward a more rigorous definition of social reinforcement: Some interpersonal clarifications.

Brokaw, David; McLemore, Clinton W.

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.44.5.1014

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“…praise and approval (warmth and friendliness, in terms of the interpersonal circle; Brokaw & McLemore, 1983). Parallel findings have emerged from an extensive series of studies by Swann, demonstrating the strength and prevalence of self-verification tendencies, even among individuals with negative self-views (see Swann, 1990, for a review).…”

Section: Hostile Complementaritymentioning

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Interpersonal rigidity, hostility, and complementarity in musical bands.

O’Connor¹,

Dyce²

1997

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Wiggins, 1982), complementarity and interpersonal rigidity were examined in relation to positive regard for others and group integration among 206 members of 54 musical bands. Complementarity was associated with more positive regard and more group integration in bands consisting of musicians who were high in interpersonal rigidity (as indexed by vector length on the interpersonal circle), whereas the effect was less strong in bands consisting of musicians who were lower in rigidity. The meager support for personality compatibility in groups and dyads observed in previous research could thus be due to a neglect of interpersonal rigidity-flexibility. There was also evidence that hostile complementarity was beneficial to the relationships of hostile individuals.

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Section: Hostile Complementaritymentioning

confidence: 81%

Interpersonal rigidity, hostility, and complementarity in musical bands.

O’Connor¹,

Dyce²

1997

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…This distinction implies different concepts of reward as well. Lewinsohn (1974) assumed that pleasant events such as positive social responses are rewarding to everyone, whereas the interpersonal reflex model views as a reward any response that will strengthen the individual's tendency to act in accustomed ways (Brokaw & McLemore, 1983). Thus, hostile dominance would be reinforcing for depressed individuals and would lead to further self-effacing behavior, whereas positive "rewards" could even be perceived as self-dissonant.…”

Section: Stage Vi: Selective Perception and Recallmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychotherapy of depression: A self-confirmation model.

Andrews¹

1989

Psychological Review

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The concepts of self-confirmation, interpersonal diagnosis, and prototype construction are used to integrate research and clinical findings concerning depression. The person is conceptualized as sustaining his or her self-concept through a feedback loop that provides both interpersonal and intrapsychic confirmation. The personality styles specified in interpersonal diagnosis are viewed as prototypes that characterize the self-confirmation strategies used by different sorts of individuals. It is argued that various theories of depression reflect distinct segments of the depressive self-confirmation feedback cycle, and hence the stages of that cycle provide a systematic basis for deriving prototype features at both descriptive and causal levels. Various interventions are targeted toward different links in the self-confirmation cycle, and all effective interventions can lead, in different ways, to rechanneling the cycle as a whole. For this reason, combinations of interventions will often be particularly valuable. The therapeutic relationship also helps to redirect the depressive client's self-confirmation patterns and should be coordinated with target-specific interventions in order to attain maximum therapeutic impact.

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“…In any nonreciprocal dyad (i.e., in which the subject attempted to utilize hostile-dominance, hostile-submission, or friendly-dominance) we could predict less frequent use of the target response by the subject." Brokaw and McLemore's (1983) study contrasted the notion that praise and warmth are universal reinforcers with the interpersonal prediction that different reinforcers are required for different behaviors. They demonstrated that among hostile-dominant boys, hostile-submissiveness (the complementary response) elicited more hostile-dominance-whereas friendly-submissiveness (the noncomplementary response, which includes the behaviors of warmth and praise) elicited less.…”

Section: Therapist As Social Reinforcermentioning

confidence: 97%

Interpersonal circle inventories: Pantheoretical applications to psychotherapy research and practice.

Kiesler

1992

Journal of Psychotherapy Integration

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The present paper addresses research applications to individual psychotherapy of interpersonal inventories derived from contemporary interpersonal theories of personality, psychopathology, and psychotherapy. It illustrates how interpersonal theory and circle inventories can form an integral part of the conceptualization and assessment of important constructs that have derived from various psychotherapy theories. It addresses the key relationship concepts of therapeutic alliance, social reinforcement, resistance and countercontrol, transference, and countertransference. The paper then analyzes the issues of the effectiveness of psychotherapy interventions, interventive stages, psychotherapy outcome, therapist-patient matching diagnosis of personality disorders, and parallel process in psychotherapy and supervision.

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Toward a more rigorous definition of social reinforcement: Some interpersonal clarifications.

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Interpersonal rigidity, hostility, and complementarity in musical bands.

Interpersonal rigidity, hostility, and complementarity in musical bands.

Psychotherapy of depression: A self-confirmation model.

Interpersonal circle inventories: Pantheoretical applications to psychotherapy research and practice.

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