Chapter 15 - Personality and Social Interaction

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Across
  1. 2. A tendency to feel tense, worried, or anxious during social interactions, or even when anticipating a social interaction (Addison & Schmidt, 1999).
  2. 5. A technical name given to a classification scheme—the identification and naming of groups within a particular subject field.
  3. 6. A manipulative strategy of social interaction referring to the tendency to use other people as tools for personal gain.
  4. 8. A form of person–situation interaction discussed by Buss. It is based on the idea that certain personality traits may evoke consistent responses from the environment, particularly the social environment.
  5. 9. According to this theory of conflict between the sexes, breakups should occur more frequently when one’s desires are violated than when they are fulfilled (Buss, 2003). Following this theory, we would predict that people married to others who lack desired characteristics, such as dependability and emotional stability, will more frequently dissolve the marriage (three words; no space between words).
  6. 10. ____ confirmation is a phenomenon whereby people’s beliefs about the personality characteristics of others cause them to evoke in others actions that are consistent with the initial beliefs. This phenomenon has also been called self-fulfilling prophecy and behavioral confirmation.
Down
  1. 1. The phenomenon whereby people marry people similar to themselves (two words; no space between).
  2. 3. Hostile ____ bias is the tendency to infer hostile intent on the part of others in the face of uncertain or unclear behavior from others. Essentially, people who are aggressive expect that others will be hostile toward them.
  3. 4. This theory of attraction that postulates that people are attracted to people whose personality dispositions differ from theirs. In other words, “opposites attract.” (two words; no space between)
  4. 7. This theory states that individuals are attracted to those whose personalities are similar to their own. In other words, “birds of a feather flock together” or “like attracts like.” (two words; no space between)