Affiliative Behavior in Diverse Environments: A Consideration of Pleasantness, Information Rate, and the Arousal-Eliciting Quality of Settings
Titel:
Affiliative Behavior in Diverse Environments: A Consideration of Pleasantness, Information Rate, and the Arousal-Eliciting Quality of Settings
Auteur:
Amato, Paul R. McInnes, Ian R.
Verschenen in:
Basic and applied social psychology
Paginering:
Jaargang 4 (1983) nr. 2 pagina's 109-122
Jaar:
1983-06-01
Inhoud:
Pedestrians in 12 diverse city environments were given a friendly greeting by a male or female investigator. Rates of eye contact, smiling, nodding, and speaking differed significantly across settings. The categorization of these settings in terms of pleasantness, information rate, and arousal-eliciting quality revealed a linear relationship between pleasantness and affiliative behavior, a curvilinear relationship between arousal-eliciting quality and affiliative behavior, and an interaction between pleasantness and arousal-eliciting quality. The results give strong support to a model proposed by Mehrabian and Russell (1974).
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