Curiosity and control
On the determinants of the search for social knowledge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10156576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William B Swann (0000-0002-8698-2994, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author), Blair Stephenson, Thane S Pittman |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 635-642 |
| Publication date | 1981-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.40.4.635 |
| OpenAlex | W2141751577 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 13 |
Gettysburg CollegeThis report concerns the hypothesis that people will be particularly inclined toseek information about others when they have recently been deprived of control.In Part 1 of a two-part experiment, some participants experienced noncontrollableoutcomes on a problem-solving task; others had no such experience. Participantswere then introduced to what was ostensibly a second unrelated study in whichthey expected to interview another individual. Some participants were led tobelieve that acquiring information about the interviewee would have high utility;others were given no such expectation. The effects of these manipulations ofcontrol deprivation and information utility on participants' inclinations to seekinformation about the interviewee were assessed. As predicted, participants whoexperienced noncontrollable outcomes during Part 1 were particularly likely toseek highly diagnostic information during Part 2. There was also an independenttendency for participants to seek highly diagnostic information when they be-lieved that the information had high utility. The relationship between the motiveto maintain control and the processes by which people formulate and sustainimages of themselves and others is discussed
Control (management · Curiosity · Social control · Social knowledge · Social science · Sociology · Cognitive and psychological constructs research · Psychological and Educational Research Studies · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Social Psychology
The psychology of curiosity
Automatic and effortful processing in depression
Identity negotiation
Interpersonal Stratification
A New Look at Dissonance Theory
Toward an Integration of Cognitive and Motivational Perspectives on Social Inference
The effect of residential mobility on the intention of social environment exploration for emerging adults
Causal uncertainty beliefs and diagnostic information seeking
Effects of uncontrollability on subsequent decision making
It doesn’t hurt to ask
When our identities are mistaken
Control deprivation and styles of thinking
The role of perceptions and attributions for response-outcome noncontingency in learned helplessness
Desire for Control and the Use of Attribution Processes
Lack of control leads to less stereotypic perceptions of groups
Who’s to blame? Causal attributions of the economic crisis and personal control
Being in the Know
The Effects of Stress and Desire for Control on the Formation of Causal Attributions
Effects of control deprivation on effort expenditure and accuracy performance
Effect of depression on quantity and quality of social inferences
Controlling the uncontrollable
Social comparison after success and failure
Self-verification processes
Motivation and cognition
Responses to Uncontrollable Outcomes
Learned helplessness in humans
Effects of amount of helplessness training and internal-external locus of control on mood and performance
Testing hypotheses about other people
Self-verification processes
Hypothesis-testing processes in social interaction
Deprivation of control and the attribution process
Generality of learned helplessness in man
Acquiring self-knowledge
Distortion in person perception as a consequence of the need for effective control
Outcome dependency
Actor-observer differences in perceptions of effective control
Some effects of deception and level of self-monitoring on planning and reacting to a self-presentation
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2023 (43) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |