Interpersonal relationships

Extraversion

A personality trait characterized by being outgoing and energetic, associated with meeting new people and engaging in more activities.

Agreeableness

These people are easy to get along with and try their best to avoid conflict, and off the off chance that it does arise they try their best to resolve it.

Deal Maker

A factor in relationships that increases the likelihood of successful interpersonal interactions.

Deal Breaker

A characteristic that negatively affects interpersonal relationships, leading to dissatisfaction or conflict.

Big Five Personality Traits

Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Negative emotionality, and Openness.

Circumplex Space

A framework used to explain how people behave in interpersonal relationships, using the dimensions of communion and agency.

What does the complimentary principle tell us?

The way in which people behave in interpersonal relationships is not random but actually follows a particular pattern.

What does the complimentary principle do?

Articulates the natural patterns of interpersonal behavior.

What are the two key patterns that the complimentary principle tells us?

Agency: When interacting with dominant people you tend to be submissive. When interacting with submissive people you tend to be dominant. 

Communion: Warm invites warm, cold invites cold.

High levels of communion

Warm

Low levels of communion

Cold

High levels of agency

dominance

Low levels of agency

submissive

According Circumplex model what is the trait extraversion comprised of?

Equal parts warmth and dominant

According to Circumplex Space what is the trait introversion comprised of?

Equal parts cold and submissive.

According to circumplex space what is the trait calculating comprised of?

Equal parts dominance and cold

According to circumplex space what is the trait unassuming comprised of?

Equal parts warm and submissive.

What are the 8 sort of slices of the circumplex space called?

Octants

What is the vector and what does it do?

It’s the arrow that describes a persons behavior. The angle tells you how someone’s behaving.

Is length important to a vector why or why not?

Yes length is important it tells you the intensity of the behavior.

what is the significance of spin?

Captures the changes of a persons behavior over the course of an interpersonal interaction. You can think of it as changes in angle overtime.

The more people spin the more…

inconsistent their behavior is.

How has the circumplex space helped clinical psychologists with the diagnosis of certain personality pathology?

Helps to describe BPD, they get really high spin scores.

Name a trait that is found to be strongly related ot being liked by others.

Politeness

What types of people are more likely to use online dating platforms?

People who are high in rejection sensitivity.

What did the researchers pay attention to try and figure out which types of people lie on their dating profiles?

Linguistic cues.

What were the linguistic cues researchers paid attention to?

Fewer self references= lying and filters on images

Increased negations= filters on images

Fewer words= altered pictures.

What are the major deal makers and breakers discussed in class?

Communal orientation (deal maker), Rejection to sensitivity, and contempt (deal breakers).

Communal Orientation

Motivation to prioritize and meet a partner's needs, leading to more mutually enjoyed activities in relationships.

Rejection Sensitivity

Hyper vigilant to rejection leading them to misinterpret cues as signs of rejection. Leads to anxiety or panicked actions.

Contempt

A feeling of disrespect or distaste towards others, often characterized by negative evaluations of others' faults. Leads to being less committed to partners and being dissatisfied with them.

What is contempt associated with?

Low agreeableness, arrogance, cold.

Who is more likely to exhibit the trait of contempt.

younger men.