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Self‐disclosure and liking: Effects for senders and receivers 1
Author(s) -
McAllister Hunter A.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1980.tb02376.x
Subject(s) - communication source , psychology , perception , social psychology , feeling , self disclosure , compliance (psychology) , computer science , telecommunications , neuroscience
This experiment tested the social reward potential of self‐disclosure and its impact on a receiver's attraction towards the sender. Further, a sender self‐perception effect was tested. Just as a receiver is speculated to use the intimacy level of a disclosure as an indication of sender regard and trust, the self‐perception hypothesis maintains that the sender also uses intimacy level to self‐attribute liking and trust for the receiver. A forced‐compliance procedure with college males was used to have a sender subject send either a high or low intimacy self‐disclosure essay. Consistent with the social reward and self‐perception hypotheses were measures of sender's behavior as trusting and measures of feelings during the disclosure process. General measures of liking and trust were not successful, however.