Interpersonal Sensitivity : Theory and Measurement

by Hall, Judith A.; Bernieri, Frank J.; Bernieri, Frank J.; Akert, Robin

• ISBN13: 9780805831641
• ISBN10: 0805831649
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Interpersonal sensitivity refers to the accuracy and/or appropriateness of perceptions, judgments, and responses we have with respect to one another. It is relevant to nearly all aspects of social relations and has long been studied by social, personality, and clinical psychologists. Until now, however, no systematic or comprehensive treatment of this complex concept has been attempted. In this volume the major theorists and researchers of interpersonal sensitivity describe their approaches both critically and integratively. Specific tests and methods are presented and evaluated. The authors address issues ranging from the practical to the broadly theoretical and discuss future challenges. Topics include sensitivity to deception, emotion, personality, and other personal characteristics; empathy; the status of self-reports; dyadic interaction procedures; lens model approaches; correlational and categorical measurement approaches; thin-slice and variance partitioning methodologies; and others. This volume offers the single most comprehensive treatment to date of this widely acknowledged but often vaguely operationalized and communicated social competency.

Table of Contents

Series Editor Foreword	xi
Robert Rosenthal
Preface	xiii
I Theoretical Issues
Toward a Taxonomy of Interpersonal Sensitivity	3	(18)
Frank J. Bernieri
Affective Empathy	21	(26)
Sandra H. Losoya
Nancy Eisenberg
II Assessing the Performance of a Perceiver
In Search of the Good Judge of Personality: Some Methodological and Theoretical Concerns	47	(20)
C. Randall Colvin
Matthew J. Bundick
Judging Rapport: Employing Brunswik's Lens Model to Study Interpersonal Sensitivity	67	(22)
Frank J. Bernieri
John S. Gillis
Thin-Slice Judgments as a Measure of Interpersonal Sensitivity	89	(14)
Nalini Ambady
Debi LaPlante
Elizabeth Johnson
Measuring Sensitivity to Deception	103	(24)
Brian E. Malone
Bella M. DePaulo
III Toward the Creation of An Interpersonal Sensitivity Test
Self-Report Measurement of Interpersonal Sensitivity	127	(16)
Ronald E. Riggio
Heidi R. Riggio
The PONS Test and the Psychometric Approach to Measuring Interpersonal Sensitivity	143	(18)
Judith A. Hall
The Interpersonal Perception Task (IPT): Alternative Approaches to Problems of Theory and Design	161	(22)
Dane Archer
Mark Costanzo
Robin Akert
Nonverbal Receptivity: The Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy (DANVA)	183	(18)
Stephen Nowicki Jr.
Marshall P. Duke
IV Dyadic Interaction Approaches
Correlational Method for Assessing Interpersonal Sensitivity Within Dyadic Interaction	201	(18)
Sara E. Snodgrass
Measuring Empathic Accuracy	219	(24)
William Ickes
Using Standard Content Methodology to Assess Nonverbal Sensitivity in Dyads	243	(22)
Patricia Noller
The Measurement of Interpersonal Sensitivity: Consideration of Design, Components, and Unit of Analysis	265	(40)
David A. Kenny
Lynn Winquist
V Where Can We Go From Here?
Interpersonal Sensitivity Research and Organizational Psychology: Theoretical and Methodological Applications	305	(14)
Ronald E. Riggio
Three Trends in Current Research on Person Perception: Positivity, Realism, and Sophistication	319	(14)
David C. Funder
Groping for the Elephant of Interpersonal Sensitivity	333	(18)
Leslie A. Zebrowitz
Paradoxes of Nonverbal Detection, Expression, and Responding: Points to PONDER	351	(12)
Howard S. Friedman
Author Index	363	(12)
Subject Index	375