PSYC 342 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nemyriv, Impression Formation, Positive Feedback
23 Oct 2016
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Incentive-by-proxy message: offer to help third party if. Examined towel reuse in a hotel guest also helps little sense of social obligation guest to help high social obligation. Reciprocity-by-proxy message: informs the target that the third party has already been helped and then asks the. Reciprocity-by-proxy: 45: grant, krieger, nemirov, fabrigar, & norris (2016) experiment 2. Participants participated in a computer mediated chat with another person in a lab session as part of a study ostensibly on impression formation. Participant received either a compliment or mild positive statement (control) during discussion. Participants primed with reciprocity by doing a sentence completion task. E. g. (cid:498)scratch my ______ and i"ll scratch yours(cid:499) was asked to provide feedback on class assignment. Participants rated liking of other person and mood and then. Compliment increased liking and positive mood compared to control condition. Neither liking nor mood had an effect on compliance suggesting neither mechanism explains the effects of compliments on compliance.
