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To determine whether perceiver expectancies or target self-conceptions prevail during interpersonal interactions by testing the moderating role of belief certainty.

January 1, 1984Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

A battle of wills: Self-verification versus behavioral confirmation.

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To determine whether perceiver expectancies or target self-conceptions prevail during interpersonal interactions by testing the moderating role of belief certainty.
Perceivers formed either certain or uncertain expectancies regarding targets that contradicted the targets' actual self-conceptions.
Dyads completed three successive interview interaction sessions where target individuals possessed either certain or uncertain self-conceptions.
Target behavior and post-interaction shifts in perceiver expectancies and target self-ratings were evaluated across certainty conditions.
Self-verification consistently occurred whenever targets held certain self-conceptions, and also tended to emerge when both interaction partners held uncertain beliefs.
Behavioral confirmation emerged only under conditions where perceivers were certain of their expectancies and targets possessed uncertain self-conceptions.
By the end of the interactions, perceivers generally abandoned their initial expectancies, whereas targets exhibited no significant change in self-ratings.

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Experimental investigation reveals how belief certainty arbitrates self-verification versus behavioral confirmation in social interactions, highlighting boundary conditions for expectancy effects.

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Swann et al. (1984) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a11cd7ea478902860562a44 https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.46.6.1287

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Experimental investigation reveals how belief certainty arbitrates self-verification versus behavioral confirmation in social interactions, highlighting boundary conditions for expectancy effects.

A battle of wills: Self-verification versus behavioral confirmation.

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A battle of wills: Self-verification versus behavioral confirmation.

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