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Life goal development, educational attainment, and occupational outcomes: A 12-year, multisample longitudinal study
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000499. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTLife goals play a major role in shaping people's lives and careers. Although life goals have prior documented associations with occupational and other life outcomes, no prior studies have investigated associations between life goal development and occupational outcomes. Using two representative samples of Icelandic youth (Sample 1: n = 485, Sample 2: n = 1,339), followed across 12 years from adolescence to young adulthood, we examined life goal development and associations with educational attainment and a wide range of occupational ou...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - March 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Andreea Sutu Kevin A Hoff Chu Chu Sif Einarsd óttir James Rounds Rodica Ioana Damian Source Type: research

Determinants of consensus in person judgments: The joint influence of information overlap, information quantity, cross-situational consistency, and shared meaning
This study investigated the effects and interplay of several core determinants of consensus in person perception: information overlap, information quantity, cross-situational consistency, and shared meaning. Targets (N = 200) were filmed in different standardized situations. Perceivers either watched the same target in different situations (N = 1,395 perceivers) or different targets in the same situation (N = 3,963 perceivers) and then rated the targets' personalities after each video. Overlap of the observed situations was systematically varied across perceivers. Consensus was higher when perceivers (a) observed a target ...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anne Wiedenroth Nele M Wessels Daniel Leising Source Type: research

Love me, because I rely on you: Dependency-oriented help-seeking as a strategy for human mating
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Mar 14. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000458. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTExisting research has suggested a predominantly negative view of dependency-oriented help. In contrast, the current research aims to test the positive function of dependency-oriented help in intimate relationships where interpersonal dependency is valued. We hypothesized that dependency-oriented help-seeking could function in communicating liking and romantic interests and, therefore, can be instrumental in attracting mates. Our hypothesis was confirmed across nine studies (N = 2,535). For help-seekers, a mate-seeking motivation could ...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - March 14, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fei Teng Xijing Wang Qiao Lei Kai-Tak Poon Source Type: research

I think you might like me: Emergence and change of meta-liking in initial social interactions
This study investigated whether adolescents (N = 293, Mage = 15.48, 61.10% female) have default expectations for meta-liking at zero acquaintance and how these judgments are updated during initial group interactions. Specifically, we used latent change models to examine how personality traits predicted initial meta-liking and whether personality and social interaction experiences were linked to changes in meta-liking judgments throughout an interaction. Our findings revealed three key insights: First, meta-liking increased gradually over the course of the interaction, with substantial individual differences in both default...
Source: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - March 14, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eva Bleckmann Richard Rau Erika N Carlson Jenny Wagner Source Type: research