Self-Serving Bias in the Implicit and Explicit Evaluation of Partners and Exes as Parents
A Pilot Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13655384 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valeria Verrastro (0000-0002-7674-727X, Università degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale), Irene Petruccelli (0000-0001-6569-9471, University Kore of Enna, Italy), Pierluigi Diotaiuti (0000-0002-5470-3233, Università degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale), Filippo Petruccelli (Università degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale), Francesco Dentale (0000-0002-8352-6192, Sapienza University of Rome, corresponding author), Claudio Barbaranelli (0000-0003-1597-0758, Sapienza University of Rome) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 251-265 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0033294115626819 |
| PMID | 29693532 |
| OpenAlex | W2345969741 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
The quality of partners' relationship can be influenced by the reciprocal respect of the other's parenting role, especially when the couple breaks up. This study is aimed at investigating the implicit versus explicit self-serving biases in the evaluation of partners and exes as parents (or potential parents), exploring sex differences and possible relationships with dyadic cohesion. Two Implicit Association Tests and two semantic differentials, comparing each respondent with current partners and last significant exes, and also a scale measuring dyadic cohesion were administered to 108 participants (40 men; M age = 28.1 yr., SD = 8.7). As expected, participants assessed themselves as better than others on both IAT and self-report evaluations, with larger effects toward exes than toward partners and on implicit than explicit measures. Women devalued exes, but not partners, more than men. Dyadic cohesion scores were negatively correlated with the explicit evaluations of partners but not with implicit ones. Theoretical interpretations in terms of self-serving bias were discussed
Cohesion (chemistry · Developmental psychology · Respondent · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Exploring Causes of the Self‐serving Bias
Children of divorce in the 1990s
Telling more than we can know
Measurement and Control of Response Bias
The psychology of interpersonal relations.
The Associative–Propositional Evaluation Model
Reflective and Impulsive Determinants of Social Behavior
Engaging Fathers in the Post-Divorce Family
Understanding and using the Implicit Association Test
Gender Differences in Automatic In-Group Bias
The self-serving bias in relational context
Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition
Egotism and attribution
Self-serving biases in the attribution of causality
Children's Adjustment to Divorce
Measuring Dyadic Adjustment
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |