Perceptions of and by lonely people in initial social interaction /
are partly in the mind of the lonely person. Finally,
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | are partly in the mind of the lonely person. Finally, attractiveness, social skills, and anxiety. Each member also differentially by others. These results support the evidence also suggested that high loneliness people and low groups of four same-sex members for 30 minutes. Following hypothesis that difficulties in initial social interactions indicated that lonely people viewed others more negatively, initiate conversation in situations where they did not know judged how he or she thought each other group member saw him loneliness people are more accurate than moderately lonely more negatively. Lonely people were not, however, rated or her on the eleven variables (meta-perceptions). The other people. In the second study, students interacted in others on eleven personal characteristics, such as physical people in judging how they are seen by others. picture themselves in eight social scenarios and predict how social interactions. The first study asked participants to Social Relations Model was used to analyze the data. Results the interaction, each group member rated themselves and their behavior would be especially anxious and unlikely to themselves more negatively and thought others viewed them they would act in each situation. Lonely people thought Two studies examined the effect of loneliness on initial |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Psychology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | viii, 55 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references: pages 39-42. |