The authors argue that high self-monitors may be more sensitive to the status implications of social exchange and more effective in managing their exchange relations to elicit conferrals of status than low self-monitors. In a series of studies, they found that high self-monitors were more accurate in perceiving the status dynamics involved both in a set of fictitious exchange relations and in r...

Many decisions to help others are made in emotionally associated circumstances. Empathy is known motivate prosocial behavior. However, no studies have investigated the interaction between empathy and emotion deciding others. In total, 151 students scoring either high or low viewed three types of emotional clips (anger vs. sadness neutrality) completed “Help for Another Study” task. Analysis var...

BACKGROUND Although parental smoking is clearly one important influence on children's smoking, it is still unclear what are the many mechanisms by which parents influence their children's smoking. Antismoking actions are one potential mechanism. OBJECTIVE To determine whether parental antismoking actions including having rules about smoking in one's home, using nonsmoking sections of public e...