Deconstructing the “Reign of Error”: Interpersonal Warmth Explains the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Anticipated Acceptance
Stinson, Cameron, Wood, Gaucher & Holmes (2009) · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35(9)
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What the study found
People who expected to be accepted behaved more warmly when they met someone new, and warmer people were liked more. In a second study, the researchers made rejection seem less likely. People who usually expected the worst then became warmer, and they were liked more too.
What the study cannot prove
One correlational study and one experiment, both with university students meeting someone new in a lab. The effects were measured within a single meeting. The paper does not show that telling yourself you will be liked produces the same warmth.
Limits we note on the exercises
These were university students meeting once in a lab. The researchers changed the situation, not what people told themselves. Saying the sentence to yourself is our own step.
Where we use it
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