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High-maintenance interaction: inefficient social coordination impairs self-regulation.

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Finkel, EJ; Campbell, WK; Brunell, AB; Dalton, AN; Scarbeck, SJ; Chartrand, TL
Published in: Journal of personality and social psychology
September 2006

Tasks requiring interpersonal coordination permeate all spheres of life. Although social coordination is sometimes efficient and effortless (low maintenance), at other times it is inefficient and effortful (high maintenance). Across 5 studies, participants experienced either a high- or a low-maintenance interaction with a confederate before engaging in an individual-level task requiring self-regulation. Self-regulation was operationalized with measures of (a) preferences for a challenging task with high reward potential over an easy task with low reward potential (Study 1) and (b) task performance (anagram performance in Study 1, Graduate Record Exam performance in Studies 2 and 3, physical stamina in Study 4, and fine motor control in Study 5). Results uniformly supported the hypothesis that experiencing high-maintenance interaction impairs one's self-regulatory success on subsequent, unrelated tasks. These effects were not mediated through participants' conscious processes and emerged even with a nonconscious manipulation of high-maintenance interaction.

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Published In

Journal of personality and social psychology

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EISSN

1939-1315

ISSN

0022-3514

Publication Date

September 2006

Volume

91

Issue

3

Start / End Page

456 / 475

Related Subject Headings

  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Control, Informal
  • Social Behavior
  • Psychological Theory
  • Problem Solving
  • Male
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Humans
  • Female
 

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Finkel, E. J., Campbell, W. K., Brunell, A. B., Dalton, A. N., Scarbeck, S. J., & Chartrand, T. L. (2006). High-maintenance interaction: inefficient social coordination impairs self-regulation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91(3), 456–475. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.91.3.456
Finkel, Eli J., W Keith Campbell, Amy B. Brunell, Amy N. Dalton, Sarah J. Scarbeck, and Tanya L. Chartrand. “High-maintenance interaction: inefficient social coordination impairs self-regulation.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 91, no. 3 (September 2006): 456–75. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.91.3.456.
Finkel EJ, Campbell WK, Brunell AB, Dalton AN, Scarbeck SJ, Chartrand TL. High-maintenance interaction: inefficient social coordination impairs self-regulation. Journal of personality and social psychology. 2006 Sep;91(3):456–75.
Finkel, Eli J., et al. “High-maintenance interaction: inefficient social coordination impairs self-regulation.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 91, no. 3, Sept. 2006, pp. 456–75. Epmc, doi:10.1037/0022-3514.91.3.456.
Finkel EJ, Campbell WK, Brunell AB, Dalton AN, Scarbeck SJ, Chartrand TL. High-maintenance interaction: inefficient social coordination impairs self-regulation. Journal of personality and social psychology. 2006 Sep;91(3):456–475.

Published In

Journal of personality and social psychology

DOI

EISSN

1939-1315

ISSN

0022-3514

Publication Date

September 2006

Volume

91

Issue

3

Start / End Page

456 / 475

Related Subject Headings

  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Control, Informal
  • Social Behavior
  • Psychological Theory
  • Problem Solving
  • Male
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Humans
  • Female