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Response Matching in Interpersonal Information Exchange
Author(s) -
TOGNOLI JEROME
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1969.tb00596.x
Subject(s) - dyad , psychology , interpersonal communication , matching (statistics) , interpersonal interaction , social psychology , interpersonal relationship , information exchange , developmental psychology , statistics , mathematics
Response matching was studied in dyads as subjects exchanged information about themselves by selecting descriptive statements prescaled for intimacy. One of the members of the dyad was a confederate, who consistently selected statements at one of five different intimacy levels: low, moderately low, moderate, moderately high and high. The findings showed that subjects significantly matched the intimacy level of the confederate's disclosures. The results shed additional light on the role of idiosyncratic patterns of self‐disclosure as a variable altering the social penetration process as delineated by Altman & Haythorn.