Expectancies and Development. The Effects of the Social Environment on Relating to One's Performance: An Experimental Study on Undergraduate Students

Krisztina-Gabriella SZABÓ
Expectancies and Development. The Effects of the Social Environment on Relating to One's Performance: An Experimental Study on Undergraduate Students
Institution: 
Applied Psychology Department Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj
Author's email: 
krisztinagabriella.szabo@gmail.com
Abstract: 

The present study relies on the basic assumption that individual differences in attachment are involved in organizing one’s experience by means of the cognitive-affective models represented by the internal working models of relationships. Suggestion is conceptualized as a special modality of social influencing, [1] which is ubiquitous in all relationships and works through the activation of cognitive-affective schemata. We examined the effects of controlling versus informative feedback on the size of improvement in performance on a mental states recognition test in a group of psychology students, as well as the involvement of adult attachment in these effects. Results are discussed mainly in terms of educational implications.

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[1] Lars-Gunnar Lundh, “Normal Suggestion. An Analysis of the Phenomenon and Its Role in Psychotherapy”, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy 5 (1998): 24–38.