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This version was published on August 1, 2007
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 33, No. 8, 1051-1063 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167207303024
© 2007 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Contextual Influences on Interpersonal Complementarity

D.S. Moskowitz

McGill University, dsm{at}ego.psych.mcgill.ca

Moon-ho Ringo Ho

McGill University and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay

McGill University

The influence of context on interpersonal complementarity was examined using an event-contingent recording procedure. Setting and role status moderated the relation between how a person behaved and how the other person behaved. Individuals were more likely to respond with agreeable behavior to agreeableness in others when not at work than when at work and when in a high status work role relative to a low status work role. Reciprocity between dominance and submissiveness was found in work settings but not in nonwork settings. Individuals were more likely to reciprocate more submissive behavior by the other person with more dominant behavior and more likely to reciprocate more dominant behavior by the other person with relatively more submissive behavior when in a higher status work role relative to lower status work roles. Results were interpreted in terms of the influence of decreased structure and shared goals on increasing interpersonal complementarity.

Key Words: interpersonal behavior • interpersonal process • interpersonal complementarity • social-role status • dominance-submissiveness • agreeable behavior • quarrelsome behavior


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