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Mirror Mirror: The role of self-monitoring and sincerity in emotional manipulation
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posted on 2023-05-17, 17:24 authored by Rachel GrieveThis 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 DifferencesVolume
51Issue
8Pagination
981-985ISSN
0191-8869Department/School
School of Psychological SciencesPublisher
Pergamon-Elsevier Science LtdPlace of publication
The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, England, Ox5 1GbRights statement
Copyright 2011 Elsevier Ltd.Repository Status
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