Motivational Foundations of Behavioral Confirmation
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This research is concerned with the processes by which one                      individuals's preconceived beliefs and expectations about another                                                                                               person influence the dynamics and outcomes of social interaction                between them. Previous research has demonstrated that an                        individual (typically referred to in such research as the                       "perceiver"), having adopted initially erroneous beliefs about                  another person (referred to as the "target"), will act on these                 beliefs in ways that cause the behavior of the target to confirm                the perceiver's initial beliefs.  Such phenomena are known as                   "behavioral confirmation" processes.                                                                                                                            Behavioral confirmation processes are of concern to social and                  behavioral scientists because they provide an opportunity to                    unravel the intertwining of processes of thought and motivation                 in the context of ongoing social interaction and interpersonal                  relationships.  This research will explore the psychological and                motivational foundations of behavioral confirmation phenomena.                                                                                                  The research will be guided by a theoretical analysis of the                    social and psychological functions that may be served by the                    activities of perceivers and targets in behavioral confirmation                 sequences.  This theoretical analysis focuses primarily on                      motivations associated with acquiring social knowledge and those                associated with regulating social interactions.  Empirical                      investigations, using procedures specifically designed for this                 program of research, will be conducted to test the implications                 of this theory for specifying when and why behavioral                           confirmation will or will not occur in social interaction.                                                                                                      Implications of these theoretical and empirical inquiries, not                  only for understanding the nature of behavioral confirmation but                also for understanding the very nature of social interaction and                interpersonal relationships themselves, will be explored.                                                                                                       The Principal Investigator is a major contributor to work on this               topic.  His paradigms have been adopted by other researchers.
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