Mirror Mirror: The role of self-monitoring and sincerity in emotional manipulation
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-17, 17:24authored byRachel Grieve
This study examined for the first time the relationships between self-monitoring, sincerity, and emotional manipulation, by investigating whether sensitivity to social cues and to appropriate emotional expression would facilitate the use of emotion in malevolent contexts. Participants (N = 170 student and community members) completed online measures of self-monitoring, sincerity, and emotional manipulation in a cross-sectional, correlational design. As predicted, high self-monitoring (of self-presentation) and low sincerity were significantly associated with emotional manipulation. Lower levels of conscientiousness and agreeableness also predicted emotional manipulation. Although the current research is exploratory, it is concluded that attention to, and control of, emotional expression, in combination with an insincere approach, are central to emotional manipulation.
History
Publication title
Personality and Individual Differences: An International Journal of Research Into The Structure and Development of Personality and The Causation of Individual Differences
Volume
51
Issue
8
Pagination
981-985
ISSN
0191-8869
Department/School
School of Psychological Sciences
Publisher
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
Place of publication
The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, England, Ox5 1Gb