BACKGROUND The cognitive theory of personality disorders hypothesizes that the emotional dysregulation and interpersonal problems in individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are, at least partially, caused by dysfunctional cognitive schemas. These schemas lead to biased evaluation of environmental and interpersonal stimuli. METHOD This study examined the interpersonal evaluation...

ost discussions of self-regulation have focused on the generic psychological processes that allow people to control their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors-processes that .a~e nonspecific with regard to the action being regulated (Baumeister, Heatherton, & T ce, 1994; Carver & Scheier, 1981; Mischel, 1996). For example, TOTE (test-operatest-exit) and other cybernetic models of self-control (Car...

Managing conflict in organizations has long been a topic of interest to researchers because of its impact on performance. In particular, one of the goals of conflict research is to clarify how task and relationship conflict affect performance, but the exact nature of that role remains unclear. This conceptual work attempts to highlight the importance of more closely examining manifest conflict ...

We sought to identify and predict the major ways in which males and females differ in interpersonal behavior. Self and observer act reports were used to assess performance frequencies of 800 acts in a sample of 93 married couples over a three-month period. Although numerous sex differences were found with respect to each data source, only 69 acts showed significant sex differences across both d...

The present study explores the impact of physical abnormalities on interpersonal relationships and investigates 1 technique available to the stigmatized to influence that impact. This technique is to indicate that the abnormality may be freely discussed or that it is a forbidden topic. The 60 male undergraduate 5s were introduced to an ostensibly naive student who was in reality a confederate a...

In the service industry, customers often form first impressions about the organization based on the behavior, perceived personality, and other attributes of the front-line service employees they interact with. Literature has has demonstrated that as a major component of interpersonal communication, nonverbal behavior (NVB) contributes towards shaping the outcome of these interactions and thus i...

In this article, we show how the use of state-of-the-art methods in computer science based on machine perception and learning allows the unobtrusive capture and automated analysis of interpersonal behavior in real time (social sensing). Given the high ecological validity of the behavioral sensing, the ease of behavioral-cue extraction for large groups over long observation periods in the field,...

The authors examined whether variations in day-to-day estimates of personality characteristics, which are often treated as error, are instead predictable and meaningful. Using event-sampling and spectral analysis, they found that variations in interpersonal behavior over weekly periods were cyclic and normative. Dominant, submissive, agreeable, and quarrelsome behaviors rose during the week and...

Anecdotal evidence of the individual and interpersonal problems that occurred during the Shuttle-Mir Space Program (SMSP) and other long-duration Russian/Soviet missions, and studies of personnel in other isolated and confined extreme (ICE) environments suggest that psychosocial elements of behavior and performance are likely to have a significant impact on the outcome of long-duration missions...