Kira Leck
Biographic Data
| ID | 4235601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kira Leck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kira |
| FAMILY NAME | Leck |
| SIGNATURE | LECK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mitchell Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dynamics of Internet Dating
This study examined the world of Internet dating. It explored the motivations of daters, their styles of courtship, and how they negotiated problems of trust and deception. The authors employed in-depth interviews and participant observation with men and women who met online. Internet daters sought companionship, comfort after a life crisis, control over presentation of themselves and their environments, freedom from commitment and stereotypic ro…
Feigning Romantic Interest
Fluctuating asymmetry, sociosexuality, and intrasexual competitive tactics
Heterosexual men and women were told they were competing with another same-sex individual for a date with an attractive opposite-sex interviewer. After answering 6 questions, participants were asked to tell the competitor why the interviewer should choose them over the competitor. Participants' videotaped behavior was coded for different behavioral tactics. Men who were more symmetrical and who had a more unrestricted sociosexual orientation were…
The self-esteem motive in social influence
Self-definition, defensive processing, and influence
Past research has found that recipients agree with majority group positions and resist minority group positions on direct measures of influence. The authors suggest that these attitude shifts reflect normative pressures to align with valued majorities and to differentiate from derogated minorities. In support of this idea, participants who considered a majority group relevant to their own self-definitions (but not those who judged it irrelevant),…
Fluctuating asymmetry, sociosexuality, and intrasexual competitive tactics
Heterosexual men and women were told they were competing with another same-sex individual for a date with an attractive opposite-sex interviewer. After answering 6 questions, participants were asked to tell the competitor why the interviewer should choose them over the competitor. Participants' videotaped behavior was coded for different behavioral tactics. Men who were more symmetrical and who had a more unrestricted sociosexual orientation were…
Dynamics of Internet Dating
This study examined the world of Internet dating. It explored the motivations of daters, their styles of courtship, and how they negotiated problems of trust and deception. The authors employed in-depth interviews and participant observation with men and women who met online. Internet daters sought companionship, comfort after a life crisis, control over presentation of themselves and their environments, freedom from commitment and stereotypic ro…
The self-esteem motive in social influence
Self-definition, defensive processing, and influence
Past research has found that recipients agree with majority group positions and resist minority group positions on direct measures of influence. The authors suggest that these attitude shifts reflect normative pressures to align with valued majorities and to differentiate from derogated minorities. In support of this idea, participants who considered a majority group relevant to their own self-definitions (but not those who judged it irrelevant),…
Feigning Romantic Interest
Self-definition, defensive processing, and influence
Past research has found that recipients agree with majority group positions and resist minority group positions on direct measures of influence. The authors suggest that these attitude shifts reflect normative pressures to align with valued majorities and to differentiate from derogated minorities. In support of this idea, participants who considered a majority group relevant to their own self-definitions (but not those who judged it irrelevant),…
The self-esteem motive in social influence
Feigning Romantic Interest
Fluctuating asymmetry, sociosexuality, and intrasexual competitive tactics
Heterosexual men and women were told they were competing with another same-sex individual for a date with an attractive opposite-sex interviewer. After answering 6 questions, participants were asked to tell the competitor why the interviewer should choose them over the competitor. Participants' videotaped behavior was coded for different behavioral tactics. Men who were more symmetrical and who had a more unrestricted sociosexual orientation were…
Dynamics of Internet Dating
This study examined the world of Internet dating. It explored the motivations of daters, their styles of courtship, and how they negotiated problems of trust and deception. The authors employed in-depth interviews and participant observation with men and women who met online. Internet daters sought companionship, comfort after a life crisis, control over presentation of themselves and their environments, freedom from commitment and stereotypic ro…
Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (3 works) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Romance (2 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (2 works) · Adventure (1 work) · Agreement (1 work)