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Factors affecting judgements of how much another likes us: A signal detection approach
Author(s) -
Berman John J.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2420080202
Subject(s) - attractiveness , psychology , social psychology , odds , physical attractiveness , statistics , mathematics , logistic regression , psychoanalysis
Investigated the effects of subjects' self‐concept and the attractiveness of the other on subjects' estimates of how much the other liked them. The use of a signal detection paradigm allowed the measurement of both the criteria and discriminability of subjects' decisions. Eighty mule and 80 female subjects participated in a computer match where they received either somewhat positive or somewhat negative feedback from their match. Besides sex and type of feedback, the factorial design included dating self‐concept (high vs. low) and other‐attractiveness (high vs. low). Results indicate that high dating self‐concept subjects had a lower criterion than low dating self‐concept subjects for saying that another liked them (p < .0l), and that the former group was superior to the latter at discriminating between the two types of feedback (p < .03). Also, males were more willing to say that the attractive match liked them than that the unattractive match liked them, while among females the direction of these differences reversed (p < .03). fie results were explained in terms of differential attention to pay‐off matrices and prior odds.