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1.
Identify,
define, and
distinguish the
three mechanisms
of social
interaction.
2.
Discuss
the choice of
marriage partner
as an example of
the mechanism of
selection.
3.
Discuss
assortative
mating for
personality as
an example of
the mechanism of
selection.
4.
Address
whether people
get what they
want in mates,
and whether this
has any impact
on marital
satisfaction and
the likelihood
of divorce.
5.
Discuss
how shyness
affects
selection into,
or selective
avoidance of,
certain
situations, as
an example of
the mechanisms
of selection.
6.
Discuss
work on the
relationships
between
personality
characteristics
other than
shyness and the
selective entry
into, or
avoidance of
situations.
7.
Discuss
aggression and
the evocation of
hostility as an
example of the
mechanism of
evocation.
8.
Discuss
the evocation of
upset in
partners as an
example of the
mechanism of
evocation.
9.
Identify
and discuss
Gottman’s six
principles of
successful
marriages, and
relate these
principles to
the mechanism of
evocation.
10.
Discuss
evocation
through
expectancy
confirmation.
11.
Identify
two key
questions that
personality
psychologists
might ask about
the process of
manipulation.
12.
Discuss
the
identification
of 11 tactics of
manipulation.
13.
Discuss
sex differences
and similarities
in tactics of
manipulation.
14.
Discuss
personality
predictors of
tactics of
manipulation.
15.
Discuss
the
Machiavellian
personality,
including a
review of how
research on this
personality
style
illustrates the
three mechanisms
of social
interaction
(selection,
evocation,
manipulation).
16.
Discuss
narcissism as it
relates to
social
interaction. |