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The Effects of Ethnicity and Culturally Congruent and Incongruent Nonverbal Behaviors on Interpersonal Attraction 1
Author(s) -
Dew AnnaMarie,
Ward Colleen
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1993.tb01038.x
Subject(s) - nonverbal communication , psychology , ethnic group , interpersonal communication , samoan , friendship , attractiveness , interpersonal attraction , style (visual arts) , social psychology , interpersonal perception , interpersonal interaction , perception , attraction , developmental psychology , social perception , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , neuroscience , sociology , anthropology , psychoanalysis , history
The study investigated the effects of ethnicity and nonverbal style on interpersonal attraction in university students. Sixty‐four Palagi (white New Zealand) women participated in the research and were randomly assigned to interview either a Palagi or Samoan student in a study on friendship. Female confederates, who posed as interviewees, responded with a pre‐rehearsed script and exhibited either a Palagi or Samoan nonverbal style. After conclusion of the interview, subjects completed a questionnaire about the project, including their perceptions of the interviewee confederate. A2 × 2 analysis of variance revealed a main effect of nonverbal style on ratings of interpersonal attractiveness: subjects preferred confederates who displayed culturally congruent (Palagi) nonverbal behaviors. There were no significant effects, however, for ethnicity or for the ethnicity by style interaction.