Ability to Identify Emotion and Infer Motive in Evaluative Interactions: a Function of Expertise?
Date of Graduation
Spring 2003
Degree
Master of Science in Psychology
Department
Psychology
Committee Chair
Robert Jones
Abstract
Interpersonal evaluation is a component of many formal and informal organizational interactions. The ability to accurately idenitfy emotions and deduce motives from those emotions may have important implications, both for the observers required to evaluate or serve others, and for the targets of evaluations. In this paper, the ability to infer motive from emotive responses in a weak situation would infer motives better than those with short-term training, who in turn would infer motives better than those with no expertise or training. Results found that experts and trained participants were not significantly better than non-experts and non-trained participants at identifying emotive responses in the weak situation. Hypotheses were not supported and limitations and implications of the study are discussed.
Subject Categories
Psychology
Copyright
© Michelle A Bauman
Recommended Citation
Bauman, Michelle A., "Ability to Identify Emotion and Infer Motive in Evaluative Interactions: a Function of Expertise?" (2003). MSU Graduate Theses/Dissertations. 926.
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/926
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