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Perceptions of and by lonely people in initial social interaction
viii, 55 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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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Includes bibliographical references: pages 39-42.